Word: aid
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...with the President's foreign policy, states flatly that the "Reagan Doctrine was a covert doctrine -- at least it was covert in implementation." Covert operations are unavoidable in a world where the enemy resorts to them freely. Some of the actions the Reagan Administration undertook or expanded, notably American aid to the guerrillas battling the Soviet invaders of Afghanistan, are eminently defensible morally and practically. But other anti-Soviet moves have entangled the U.S. with allies who cannot stand scrutiny. A prize example is the financing of food supplies for guerrilla groups fighting the Soviet-backed Vietnamese occupiers of Kampuchea...
...times too the Administration turned to secrecy for operations it could have conducted openly. Congressman McCurdy recalls asking Jonas Savimbi, the leader of anti-Marxist guerrillas in Angola, whether he desired open or covert aid. Savimbi replied that he wanted the clearest possible expression of American support, so in 1986 McCurdy and a bipartisan group of legislators voted to provide aid overtly -- only to be opposed by the Administration, which insisted on arming the guerrillas on the quiet, for diplomatic reasons...
...result of the incident, the legislators in 1984 toughened the so-called Boland amendment to forbid any U.S. military aid to the contras. But by then some officials felt so committed to bringing down the Marxist Sandinista government that they were driven to circumvent, if not outright break, the law. Some Reagan officials have since taken refuge in legalistic quibbles about exactly what the Boland amendment prohibited. In truth, the amendment, like Congress's whole policy toward Nicaragua, was no model of clarity. But North, according to one participant in his schemes, knew full well what he was doing. According...
...failures in Lebanon and disclosures about secret arms sales to Iran, the Soviets have adopted flexible and imaginative new strategies, and the results are already perceptible. Typical of the changing scene are some recent comments by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whose country has received nearly $20 billion in U.S. aid since 1975. When asked by a Saudi magazine about Egypt's relations with the U.S., Mubarak described them as "normal." But when asked about his country's relations with the Soviet Union, which had been practically nonexistent in the 1970s and early 1980s, Mubarak replied, "They are very good...
Quiz time. Besides Jane Fonda, what sex symbol of the '60s has become a health emblem of the '80s? Stumped? Try the water bed. Yes, that infamous fixture of hippie pads has been transformed in just two decades into an increasingly popular middle-class therapeutic aid. Kathleen Hetland and her husband Darwin of Osakis, Minn., both 56 and arthritis sufferers, sleep blissfully on a water mattress that their children sent them as a gift. Says she: "I absolutely love it, and I wouldn't know what to do without...