Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more disturbing undertone to the Reagan Administration: the belief that some laws are little more than inconvenient pieces of paper. It is now clear that the Reagan team consciously set out to violate the spirit, if not the letter, of the Boland amendment, which banned U.S. military aid to the contras. This same wink-and-nod approach to legality has often been apparent in the Administration's languid enforcement of civil rights statutes. The freewheeling business climate also owes a large debt to the President's none-too-secret hostility to many forms of economic regulation...
...plead for Soviet neutrality in the war, but he came back with no such accord. Last month the Kuwaitis chartered three freighters from the Soviets to carry and protect goods passing through the Persian Gulf on the way to Iraq. The Iranians believe the U.S. is giving clandestine aid to Iraq, although Washington denies any such moves...
Reagan last week admitted discussing contra funding with Fahd but stressed that he was not the one who raised the subject. "My diary shows that I never brought it up," he declared. "It shows that the King, before he left, told me that he was going to increase the aid...
...foreign aid, although we live in a world where four billion people are in poverty and 40,000 children die of starvation every day, our economic assistance has dropped by almost 50 percent in real dollars since 1960--and much of that is concentrated now on just two countries, Egypt and Israel. Among the industrialized nations, we have sunk to 17th in the proportion of our gross national product that we give to aid our poorer neighbors abroad. Some even have suggested that $200 million is to much to give to Aquino's Philippene government...
Economically, our share of the world market is bound to decline still further so that neither our trade nor our aid will have even the influence they currently possess. By the year 2000, we will have to rely on foreign markets, foreign goods, foreign investments loom larger in our eonomy, we will be unable to achieve greater growth or reduce our unemployment without the cooperation of the other great economic powers...