Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Palos says that some of these students will receive financial aid, to allow interested people who cannot pay for their stay the chance to go. To this end, he is currently looking for donations from private individuals. He is also talking to airlines to see if they will donate tickets for the trip. "We hope to reduce the cost for volunteers who are already giving up summer wages," he says...
...head of Widener's Slavic department, Hugh Olmsted, met the two acting directors of the Library of the Academy of Sciences in Leningrad on March 17 and pledged that he and his colleagues in a subcommittee of the American Council of Learned Societies would provide first aid for the 11 million documents damaged by fire and water...
...concrete plans for aid must wait until inventories have been taken and catalogues re-formed, Olmsted said. Since the fire, 15,000 Russians have volunteered to help dry waterlogged books and sift through the ashes for scraps of text...
...Washington, U.S. officials tried to put a positive face on the results. Said a senior Administration official: "The ultimate test of democracy is to have the party in power lose an election to the opposition." Congress, which has authorized nearly $3 billion in military and economic aid for El Salvador over the past seven years, may be less sanguine...
...Soviet pullout from Afghanistan came and went last week without an accord. The main snag in the negotiations between the Afghan government and Pakistan, which represents the U.S.-backed mujahedin rebels, was the so-called symmetry issue, with Washington demanding that the Soviets cut off all military aid to the Afghan government at the same time that the U.S. ends arms deliveries to the rebels. The issue may be resolved this week when Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze meet in Washington...