Word: aid
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Biden also condemned the Administration'sCentral American policy, calling for thewithdrawal of aid to the Contras and theintroduction into Congress of a $5 billioneconomic aid plan for emerging democracies in theregion
WASHINGTON--Former U.S. Ambassador Lewis A. Tambs testified yesterday that in 1985, while U.S. aid to Nicaraguan Contra rebels was banned, White House aide Oliver L. North ordered him to use his post in Costa Rica to help the rebels open a military front in Nicaragua...
Tambs, who was ambassador to Costa Rica from 1985 until last January and is now a history professor at Arizona State University, gave the committees the first direct evidence of a State Department official helping the rebels during the two-year congressional ban on U.S. military aid to the Contras...
...fibrosis. CF victims produce abnormally thick, sticky mucus and other secretions that block normal lung function and interfere with digestion. Babies born with CF used to die in early childhood, but today more than half reach their early 20s, thanks to a battery of drugs that control lung infections, aid digestion and limit secretions. Still, few survive beyond the age of 30. House's lungs were "just about gone," according to his father, and for three years he had used an oxygen tank while he installed air- conditioning equipment...
Once a port of call for NATO warships, Malta under Labor increasingly turned to the Soviet Union, North Korea and Libya for economic and military aid. So close were security ties with Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi that Maltese officials tried to warn Tripoli minutes before last year's U.S. air raid on Libya...