Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enjoyed the luxuries her often richer classmates take for granted. She has spent four years on work-study to support her studies. Throughout it all, Rodriguez has thrived, prompting Lowell House non-resident law tutor John Nichols '80 to comment, "she has mastered the Harvard financial aid system...
...trial will probably be deferred until the fall, said Goldstein, a super- vising attorney for Harvard's Legal Aid Bureau,who participated in the sit-in on Monday forseveral hours. He said the delay would stem fromthe request for information about Harvard's linksto Ropes and Gray that he plans to make...
...before he left for the Moscow summit: if Noriega would leave Panama shortly after Aug. 12, the fifth anniversary of his taking office, he could return for the Christmas holidays and permanently after his country's 1989 presidential elections. Another sweetener was an offer of $90 million in American aid. Although Noriega was to ditch new President Manuel Solis Palma after the formation of a "national reconciliation" government, another henchman, Colonel Marcos Justines, would continue to head the PDF. Most important, the drug charges would be dropped -- a proposition that drove even the relentlessly loyal Bush to his first public...
...cigar workers pooled their resources to establish hospitals and mutual- aid societies. They built elaborate ethnic clubs complete with cafes, ballrooms and theaters, some of which attracted the best opera singers and actresses of the day from Spain, Italy and Cuba. "The culture of the cigar worker was evolved to a degree hardly found elsewhere in the proletariat," says County Historian Anthony Pizzo...
...announcement was welcomed by the Soviet Union, which backs Hanoi with an estimated $1 billion a year in aid but is unhappy with Viet Nam's mismanagement. Disengagement from Kampuchea could also improve Hanoi's chilly relations with China, which supports Kampuchean resistance forces, including the once dreaded Khmer Rouge, that have been fighting the Vietnamese. Eventually, the U.S. may feel more disposed to endorse Hanoi's requests for Western assistance. Not everybody will be pleased, however. Some Kampucheans fear that the Khmer Rouge, who ruled with murderous intensity in Phnom Penh until Vietnamese forces drove them...