Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inside the White House, spokesman Marlin Fitzwater announced that Reagan stands ready to veto any legislation halting aid to the Contra rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government...
...program notes, Sellars announces right off the bat that he is bringing as light a touch as possible to what is ostensibly some serious dramatic business: Caesar arrives in Egypt and is seduced by the lips and legs of Cleopatra, who wants his aid in deposing her brother Ptolemy, the king of Egypt. The typically non-historical subplot stars Cornelia and her son Sestro, who are out for revenge after Ptolemy slays paterfamilias Pompey as a gift to Caesar and an excuse to put the moves on Cornelia himself...
Reagan maintained his two and one-half month silence while Robert Gates was undergoing a second, tough day of questioning at his Senate confirmation hearing to take over as CIA director. Elsewhere in Congress, the Democratic-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted narrowly to cut off further aid to the Contra rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government...
Finally, during the two-week-long trip, Murphy will speak to and work with prominent Black political leaders such as Capetown Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Revered Allen Boesak in order to obtain the political support necessary for implementation of programs to aid Black South Africans...
...that Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 made a very different kind of trip to South Africa. He traveled there--as the chairman of the University committee with responsibility for spending the fund--with a specific preordained plan in hand for spending part of a $1 million aid fund...