Word: aid
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That may not assuage U.S. legislators who are certain that Pakistan seeks the Bomb to match India, which exploded a "peaceful nuclear device" in 1974. Looming in the background is a 1985 law requiring a cutoff of U.S. aid to any country that tries to illegally acquire American technology or supplies for nuclear bomb making. With his plea to Zia, Armacost was hoping to prevent that cutoff from being applied automatically. The inspection request was specifically aimed at Pakistan's top-secret facility at Kahuta, where most nuclear research is believed to take place...
...been to unite a normally vociferous opposition behind Zia's authoritarian government. Declared Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani, president of the right-wing Jamiatul-Ulema-e- Pakistan Party: "Pakistan must not accept the U.S. pressure. It should continue its nuclear program even if that means cutting off all American aid...
...week, in an article in the Washington Post, Claiborne Pell, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, denounced Pakistan for "breaking its commitments and flouting U.S. laws." Representative Dante Fascell of Florida, who heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has asked the Administration to suspend military portions of the aid package until Pakistan shows that it is not involved in illicit attempts to obtain nuclear materials. And an appropriations subcommittee has already voted to suspend a small portion of the aid. Many analysts believe congressional action will end there, since awareness among the lawmakers of the larger geopolitical issues...
Then it was the turn of the U.S., which cut off all aid to the Noriega regime on July 22. In a bid to tie Washington directly to the alleged opposition conspiracy, the progovernment Panamanian newspaper Critica charged that U.S. Ambassador Arthur Davis had arrived at the Crusade offices around the time of the police raid. The U.S. embassy called the allegation...
...Washington, Secretary of State George Shultz declared that the freeze on aid to Panama would continue until the "emergence of civilian, democratic control." A bipartisan group of Senators that included conservative Jesse % Helms and liberal Edward Kennedy announced they would sponsor legislation to continue the aid freeze indefinitely. In Miami, U.S. drug-enforcement agents began looking into new allegations that Noriega has taken payoffs from drug traffickers...