Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience of about 100 drifted in and out of the parish hall, representatives of local organizations to aid the homeless described their programs and needs. Rev. Fred Reisz, who advises the Harvard University Lutheran Shelter for the Homeless, talked about the 23-bed facility, staffed by student volunteers, which will open on November...
Former Cambridge Councilor Kevin Crane commented that "It'll be an interesting two years, to see what he does down in Washington--we haven't had a freshman Congressman for 34 years." With a Republican President, he said the Speaker's ability to retain Federal aid for the district would be difficult to match...
Hashemi's supporters were quoted by Al-Shiraa as saying Iranian officials demanded in the talks with McFarlane that the United States halt military, financial and political aid to Iraq, which has been at war with Iran for six years...
...civil war, together with a drought and famine that are among the worst in Africa, has virtually destroyed Mozambique's economy. Despite international food aid that this year will total $200 million, Mozambican officials say thousands who have not made their way to coastal resettlement camps will die of starvation...
While Hasenfus squirmed in the limelight, Washington prepared to resume direct aid to the contras after the expiration of a two-year congressional ban. Last Friday President Reagan signed an Executive Order authorizing various Government agencies to take responsibility for the $100 million package. The program will be administered on a day-to-day basis by the CIA and supervised by the State Department. As if to underscore that point, Elliott Abrams, the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, traveled to the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, where he met briefly with President Jose Azcona Hoyo and then with...