Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even more politically explosive topic is farm aid. U.S. farmers, who are still mired in a deep depression, enjoy perennial clout on Capitol Hill, but Reagan wants to cut the farm budget by several billion during the next five years. The Administration seeks to cut target farm prices, which determine the size of subsidies, by 10% a year. It would also like to toughen up the rules on maximum payments to ensure that the bulk of the aid goes to farmers who need it most. Says OMB Chief Miller, alluding to the movie Country: "A lot of money goes...
...been willing to stand up to the White House in the budget debate, and this year he seems more determined than ever to challenge Reagan's priorities. Says Gray: "What Congress is saying, Mr. President, is if you want to spend more money for the Pentagon and foreign aid, you've got to pay for it out of new revenues and not out of decimating education, health care for the elderly and nutrition for children...
...dubious ones advanced by hard-liners. One group is urging that Reagan both announce he is moving toward early deployment of his Strategic Defense Initiative and greatly increase pressure on the Marxist Sandinistas in Nicaragua. The Central American initiative would mean asking for a huge increase in U.S. aid to the contra rebels and assigning American ground troops to support the guerrillas. "That would focus public debate on something useful to the country," says one adviser...
...would also be a prescription for a bitter conflict with Capitol Hill that Reagan probably could not win. The Administration will have all it can do next month to persuade Congress to release the final 40% of the $100 million in aid for the contras that it approved last year. The fear that Congress might cut off aid to punish the White House for slipping Iranian arms-sale profits to the contras has faded; reliable nose counters like Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole discern a majority in favor of continued help. But it is an extremely thin one -- perhaps...
Even with continued U.S. aid, the contras are unlikely to "liberate" any Nicaraguan territory. Administration realists foresee at best a long campaign of guerrilla harassment; they warn that the contras' ability to continue the fight depends on their retaining sanctuaries in an increasingly nervous Honduras. Says an American diplomat: "Since the Iran business blew up, we have felt a definite increase in the Hondurans' eagerness to see the contras somewhere else -- either in Managua running the country or in New York and Los Angeles waiting on tables, but out of Honduras...