Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration kept a close eye on the Costa Rica summit. In a whirlwind tour of Central America two weeks ago, Lieut. General Colin Powell, Reagan's National Security Adviser, irritated Nicaragua's neighbors by suggesting that they might suffer U.S. aid cutbacks if they abandoned the contras. Powell also urged them to condemn the Sandinistas' intransigence as a major obstacle to peace. The Administration's critics saw the mission as part of an overall plan to topple the Sandinistas by using the contras to wage a proxy war. The outcome of last week's summit, however, seemed...
...light within a randomly chosen tiny section of sky as evidence that the galaxies actually exist. Reason: similar bodies "should be all over the place," as Elston puts it, in our galaxy- filled universe. Moreover, Elston and his team took a second look at the suspected galaxies without the aid of the infrared device and found them about 20 times fainter in ordinary, visible light. The difference in brightness and the location of that difference on the electromagnetic spectrum make sense to astronomers: a newly formed galaxy would give off just such a light signature as it rushed away from...
...territories dominate the unskilled-labor market, especially in the construction industry. Arabs collect Israel's garbage and clean its streets, wait on tables in its finest restaurants and keep its factories and mills running. For Israel, holding on to the territories makes sense economically. Jerusalem contributed $240 million in aid and investment to Gaza and the West Bank in 1987 and took back $393 million in taxes...
Iowans are even less enthusiastic than voters elsewhere about federal assistance to farmers, despite the state's agricultural base. Some 55% of Republicans at large favor increased aid, vs. 48% in Iowa. Among Democrats, support for an increase drops from 72% nationwide to 58% in Iowa. The state's long, intimate experience with federal programs that fail...
...change. But in Iowa, only 19% of Republicans favor more defense, and 36% want less. Democrats nationwide split roughly by thirds on the same question; in Iowa, half the Democrats support a cut in Pentagon spending, and only 15% prefer an increase. Asked if they favor or oppose U.S. aid to the contras in Nicaragua, Republicans nationally support the program, 54% to 32%; Iowa Republicans divide narrowly against it, 42% to 40%. While Democrats in general oppose contra assistance by 2 to 1, the ratio in Iowa...