Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...task force blames the homeless crisis on the Reagan Administration's cuts in federal housing aid, food stamps, and programs to care for the mentally ill. Said Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, the task-force chairman: "If the record number of people in America's streets and soup kitchens had been driven there by a natural catastrophe, many parts of our country would be declared disaster areas...
Some things never change. Every year Ronald Reagan petitions a resistant Congress for renewed aid to the contra rebels. And every year, as the vote nears, Nicaragua's Sandinista leaders make a blunder that puts Reagan's request over the top. In 1985 Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega Saavedra jetted off to Moscow four days after a $14 million contra-aid measure had been rejected; chastened by what looked like a deliberate slap in the face, Congress reversed itself and okayed a $27 million package. The next year a Sandinista attack on contra bases inside Honduras persuaded Congress to approve...
...there any movement on regional issues. There had been some hope that Gorbachev would announce a starting date for a promised Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, but he declined to do so unless Reagan cut off aid to the Afghan rebels. There was no agreement, either, on Nicaragua or the Persian Gulf. Commenting on the lack of progress in these areas, Administration officials pointed out that in private meetings Gorbachev was much tougher than the charming image he offered to the public. "What you have gained is a guy you can talk to," said one Reagan aide, "but when it comes...
COVER: Famine again stalks Ethiopia, and the West wrestles with the aid dilemma...
...least 6 million people are threatened by starvation as another drought grips the impoverished East African nation. Thousands of peasants trek across parched landscapes in search of food -- recalling the apocalyptic images that filled television screens three years ago. -- What should be done when aid to the starving benefits those who made them starve? See WORLD...