Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Canada authorized the new hunt to aid the struggling economy of Newfoundland, where unemployment is now 18%. But the prey will be limited to adult seals, which must be shot instead of clubbed. Even so, animal-rights activists are mulling a worldwide boycott of Canadian marine products...
...falling-out with Goukouni Oueddei, a former Chadian President and leader of rebel forces battling the present government. That rupture prompted most of the guerrillas to shift their loyalties from Gaddafi to Chadian President Hissene Habre and his French-backed army. Habre, who received $15 million in U.S. emergency aid late last year, began a major drive against the Libyans in December. The effort paid off one month later, when government forces captured the Libyan base at Fada, in northeastern Chad. According to U.S. and French officials, Libyan forces were busy trying to recapture Fada when the fighting erupted...
...CLASS option -- Identa Call -- can save lives. When equipped with this feature, a phone displays the caller's number on a small screen. In Atlantic City, N.J., employees at the Bally's Casino Hotel came to the aid of a heart- attack victim after the feature was programmed into the hotel's internal phone system last November. The guest had placed a desperate call to the front desk but could not stay on the phone long enough to give a name or room number...
...Aid to the homeless...
...private American donors for the contras. Yes, he had met with some of the donors in the White House and thanked them for their efforts, said Reagan, but he had no idea they had been buying guns. What, then? "Spot ads on television" advocating resumption of open, fully legal aid by Congress to the Nicaraguan rebels, he said...