Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, representatives of the U.S., South Africa, Angola and Cuba plan to reconvene next week to discuss such issues as a schedule for withdrawal of Cuban troops, future South African aid to Angolan rebels and the presence of bases of the African National Congress, which is fighting a guerrilla campaign against South Africa. Asked about the upcoming negotiations, Crocker said, "Some bullets have been bitten. There are some more that have to be bitten. And soon...
...Daniel Ortega's government were not Marxist. But that fact alone is enough to convince the Reagan Administration that this Central American nation about the size of Arkansas threatens the security of the United States. It is this threat that makes Reagan push for more contra aid. Yet at the same time, he calls peace the final goal in Central America...
Bush, a former CIA director, supports Reagan's policy of using covert action and military aid to assist anti-Communist rebels. But while Reagan ennobled -- and romanticized -- the policy by calling its recipients "freedom fighters," his more prosaic Vice President talks about the problems of waging "low-intensity conflict." Bush wants to continue funding the Nicaraguan contras, but, says Kim Holmes of the conservative Heritage Foundation, "I don't think he would ever have called them the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers." If Reagan's beau ideal of the swashbuckling American good guy is Oliver North, Bush seems...
...what he dubs the security-work conundrum, in which the demands of providing security for those whose earnings place them below the poverty line conflict with the desire to make those people self-sufficient workers. Then, there is the targeting-isolation conundrum, which contrasts the need to identify and aid specific groups of the poor with the problem of isolating and stigmatizing those same people...
...think they're going to believe they're going to get justice?" asks Franklin Williams, chairman of the New York State Judicial Commission on Minorities. Black attorneys frequently complain that they are not accorded the same respect that their white colleagues receive. Archibald Murray, executive director of the Legal Aid Society in New York City, says black members of his staff have been stopped and searched because court officers assumed that a black entering the courtroom must be a defendant...