Word: aid
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...seven years in the U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter has earned a reputation as a ferociously independent politician who keeps his own counsel. In 1985 the Pennsylvania Republican stunned liberals and some moderates by unexpectedly voting for the MX missile; then last year he managed to enrage conservatives by opposing aid to the Nicaraguan contras. During the past two weeks, trying to read Specter's mind on the subject of Judge Robert Bork has proved as confounding as ever...
...were close to unanimous over aid to theContras, with all of them saying they were opposedto sending the Contras military assistance...
While being reluctant to send aid to CentralAmerica, the candidates generally favored a U.S.presence in the Persian Gulf, although they werecritical of administration policy...
...toward democratic reform. Most Democrats hope that Arias' visit will further undermine the Reagan Administration's dual policy of pursuing peace while trying to secure $270 million in new funding for the contras. Last week congressional leaders tentatively agreed to a stopgap provision of some $3.5 million in nonlethal aid to hold the rebels through a cease-fire scheduled for Nov. 7. But Wright and other Congressmen have indicated that they hope those funds will eventually be used to resettle the rebels...
That is not quite true. To some who support the Guatemala accord, Reagan's request for $270 million in contra aid before the Nov. 7 cease-fire seems not so much a way to pressure the Sandinistas as a ploy to sabotage Arias' proposal. Arias remains hopeful. "I am obliged to be an optimist," he says. "I really hope that the Americans will give us the opportunity until Nov. 7 to show that we have the will to find peace in Central America." Arias will need all his considerable optimism, charm and determination to persuade the White House that...