Word: aid
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...North's global troubleshooting has sometimes landed him in trouble. As head of NSC operations in Central America, he organized a private supply network that provided aid to the contra rebels seeking to oust the Marxist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Senate and House committees investigated North's role last year, but found no proof that he had violated a U.S. law regulating aid to the contras. The colonel's name briefly surfaced again last month when Gunrunner Eugene Hasenfus was captured in Nicaragua after his plane was shot down while he was flying weapons to the contras. A card found...
Another zealous cowboy is Vince Cannistraro, 41, a twelve-year veteran of the CIA. He took over Central American operations from North last spring after first being responsible for operations in Africa. He has directed the channeling of weapons and aid to Jonas Savimbi's UNITA rebels fighting the Marxist regime in Angola. Insiders say Cannistraro managed to supply Savimbi with more arms than the White House originally intended. A quiet official who joined the NSC in 1983, Cannistraro has helped funnel supplies to the mujahedin guerrillas at war with the Soviet-backed government of Afghanistan...
...hardly be distinguished from those of Paula Hawkins, the incumbent Republican he beat 55% to 45% -- or for that matter from those of Ronald Reagan, who campaigned unavailingly against him. Democrat Graham, 50, who enters the Senate after eight years as Governor, supports the Strategic Defense Initiative and aid to the Nicaraguan contras, and he considers the Gramm- Rudman-Hollings Act a "necessary sledgehammer" to trim federal spending...
Though McCain is a staunch conservative on most matters, befitting a successor to Goldwater, he is something of an independent on foreign policy. He supports sanctions against South Africa and favors military aid to the Nicaraguan contras but strongly opposes direct U.S. intervention in Central America. McCain has curbed his formidable temper but not his irreverent humor: he got off one of the best quips of the campaign at Goldwater's expense. McCain recalled Goldwater's saying that if he had been elected President in 1964 and had put his hawkish policies into effect, McCain would never have wound...
...Sino-Soviet relations since Gorbachev's rise to power 20 months ago. Moreover, there are tentative signs of improvement on another source of dispute, Soviet support for the Vietnamese occupation of Kampuchea. Two weeks ago, when a senior Soviet-bloc diplomat was asked in Peking if Moscow might reduce aid to Viet Nam, he responded, "There is always the possibility of adjusting programs that might not work." Still, Peking is wary. Says a Chinese journalist in Moscow: "Gorbachev has not taken a step forward. He has merely lifted his foot." The Japanese, too, are cautious. Soviet efforts to warm relations...