Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JEROME MURPHY, an assistant dean at the Graduate School of Education, left last week for South Africa to research way to spend part of the $1 million aid fund created by President Bok last year to aid South African Blacks. Whether or not his trip leads to a concrete proposal for disbursing the funds, it is clear that through sound preparation this teacher of teachers has taught University administrators several lessons about how to aid disadvantaged Blacks in South Africa...
...reasons for protesting American foreign policy, Palomba said. "We are calling for the United States to quit doing business in Southern Africa--both governmentally and privately; we want to put pressure on South Africa to stop the war with Angola; we want the United States to send no more aid to UNITA; we want South Africa to drop its occupation of Namibia; and we want South Africa to stop pressuring and exerting economic influence on Zimbabwe," said Palomba...
Simultaneously, the Kremlin was also putting forth an unusually hard propaganda line against the U.S. This included publication of a book charging that the 1978 Jonestown massacre, in which more than 900 religious cultists took their lives by drinking cyanide-spiked Kool-Aid, was the work of the CIA. TASS also resurrected totally fantastic and absurd allegations that the AIDS virus was created by U.S. scientists in a Maryland germ-warfare laboratory...
...year, not a single reporter for a major U.S. publication or TV network has been allowed past Las Trojes to spend time with the contras. Questions about whether the contras received money from U.S. arms sales to Iran dominate the headlines and the Reagan Administration vows to seek continued aid for the rebels, but there is little reporting on exactly how the contras are faring in the field. Even after thousands of newly armed rebels began streaming into Nicaragua in December for what contra and U.S. officials describe as a make- or-break offensive, reporters have had no better luck...
...difficult to cover, since there are no front lines and battles are usually fleeting. Nonetheless, the secrecy surrounding the contras is both excessive and ill conceived. After all, the Reagan Administration has made the rebel effort a centerpiece of its foreign policy. Congress, which approved $100 million in military aid last summer, is likely to debate the issue of further help later this month. Without extensive and independent reporting about whether the contras are making progress, Congress -- and the public, for that matter -- will have no objective way to judge whether the cause is worthy of continued support. "Whistle-stop...