Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aquino will stress the idea of "trade more than aid" in U.S.-Philippine relations throughout her working visit, which includes stops in Washington, D.C., New York City, Boston and San Fransisco, embassy officials said...
...Publications aid us because they consider it a great honor to be parodied, especially by the Harvard Lampoon," said Joe Armstrong, publisher of the Lampy. "It signifies to them a coming of age, a certain measure of success." The Crimson has been parodied by the Lampoon more often than any other publication...
...Area, the playpen of countercultures. A bit young to be a founding beatnik and, ten years later, a little too bald to be a convincing hippie, he became "the Chief" to a tribe of hallucinating nomads. This stage of Kesey's life was described in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe's rollicking screed about a cross-country tour that Kesey and his overstimulated Merry Pranksters took in a vintage school bus with a psychedelic paint...
With its $100 million aid package for Nicaraguan rebels all but in hand, the Administration had some cause to suppose it could get on with it and prepare the rebels to do serious battle with the Sandinista regime. Yet the Senate's debate on the aid measure had hardly subsided when Administration officials began wondering when, and just where, they could begin getting the contras into fighting trim...
...with more respect, and more generously. There was strong suspicion among some State Department officials that while Panama and El Salvador were earnest about wanting no part of the contras, Honduras -- for the past four years a major unofficial contra refuge -- hopes to induce the U.S. to sweeten its aid allotment. Observers noted that a Honduran delegation was in Washington last week negotiating for a larger helping from the $300 million pot earmarked for Honduras and three other Central American nations as part of the same measure that will give assistance to the contras...