Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--A bitterly divided House voted Wednesday to cut off U.S. military support for Nicaragua's contra rebels, rejecting President Reagan's aid request in the hope of fortifying the Central American peace process...
...vote, culminating six years of overt and covert military support for the rebels fighting the leftist Sandinista government, killed Reagan's request for $36.2 million in new aid to keep the contras alive as a fighting force through June...
...serious defeat for the president, who had lobbied hard on the issue for two weeks and has put the contras among the top foreign policy priorities for his final year in office. Only a day earlier, Reagan had offered one final compromise giving Congress more say in the military aid. He argued that failure to extend aid would strengthen communist influence in the hemisphere...
...voting, 12 Republicans sided with 207 Democrats to defeat the president's aid request. Forty-seven Democrats joined 164 Republicans in voting for the president's package...
With at least 6 million Ethiopians threatened with starvation for the second time in three years because of drought, Western food donations have once again begun pouring into the country. But much of this aid never reaches the hungry. Last week relief officials reported that 172 tons of food, given chiefly by Italy, were destroyed when rebels of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front attacked a 17-truck commercial convoy moving supplies to the stricken provinces of Eritrea and Tigre. The guerrillas say the vehicles were used to ferry ammunition to government troops, a charge adamantly denied by aid organizations...