Word: aid
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...Washington, Islamabad and the rebels are all learning, success in negotiations can prove as tricky as winning on the battlefield. In Washington there has been widespread confusion in recent weeks about when the U.S. would cut off aid to the resistance under a peace agreement. Some U.S. officials have said that the assistance would be gradually reduced as the Soviets pull out. But the U.S. has already agreed, through the Pakistani negotiators in the U.N.-sponsored Geneva talks, to cut off military aid ($630 million in 1987) at the point when the Soviets begin to withdraw. Fearing that the mujahedin...
Some U.S. analysts believe that Washington is going too easy on Moscow. The Geneva talks, which the U.S. endorses, do not cover key issues like continued Soviet military aid to the Kabul regime that leave the door open for Moscow to exercise considerable influence in Afghanistan after withdrawal. In fact, in talks with the Soviets, the State Department has appeared willing to make concessions -- for instance, countenancing an Afghan-Soviet defense pact -- so long as the Soviets remove their troops. "It is high time," says Analyst Alexiev, "for the Administration to realize that the only way to stop the bloodshed...
...Foundation will donate the proceeds to one of several groups that aid the homeless, said Harvard Foundation Director S. Allen Counter...
...original target of the FBI was the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), a Washington-based group that protests the continuation of war in Central America and raises money for humanitarian aid. Although the FBI suspected that CISPES was giving illegal military aid to leftist guerillas in El Salvador, no evidence was found. So the FBI decided to expand their investigation...
...area of foreign affairs and economics, the founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and the 700 Club program shows little expertise. At a debate Sunday night he claimed that the Soviets had placed 25 nuclear missiles in Cuba and in previous statements he has promised to send aid to Polish rebels and to make future wars short because "we could have won Vietnam in a week or two." To solve the budget deficit, Robertson favors a "year of jubilee" in which all debts would be forgiven and has proposed selling the U.S. Post Office to raise revenue...