Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Previously, U.S. warships have only been permitted to provide "humanitaran aid" to non-American ships in distress and requesting aid, but not to intercede in armed conflict involving those ships...
Founded 75 years ago as the first student-run legal service organization in the country, the Harvard Law School Legal Aid Bureau occupies the first floor of an unimposing white house in a corner of the Law School campus...
...Legal Aid Bureau also suffers from a problem that inevitably plagues student legal services programs: litigation often lasts longer than the three years law school program most students attend...
...There is always criticism from some parts of an ecclectic faculty on most issues," Greenberg says. "I think it is fair to say that one of the excellent things to remember as the Legal Aid Bureau celebrates its 75th birthday is that it is steeped in a great deal of tradition but is flexible enough to change and to grow...
Washington, by contrast, held its ground even as Moscow protested that it was being asked to drop longstanding treaty commitments to provide Kabul with military aid. Then, two weeks ago, U.S. diplomats turned Washington's position on its head in a compromise proposal made to the Soviets: Would Moscow go along with continued U.S. arms supplies to the mujahedin at levels "symmetrical" to Moscow's support for Najibullah? "Unacceptable" was the response by Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov, and Foreign Minister Shevardnadze threatened a unilateral Soviet pullout without an agreement at Geneva. In the end, Gorbachev apparently decided that...