Word: aid
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...devoted family man, Wolper is eager for the post-Fourth Stage 3, his return to Los Angeles and his eclectic pastimes. He is an avid collector of Lincoln / memorabilia and Picasso sculptures, an unstinting volunteer for aid to medical research and a nut about the Dodgers. Ahead are projects that have been on hold: TV productions on Picasso, Napoleon and Josephine, and Betty Ford's autobiography, The Times of My Life, are all coming in 1987. But no more civic spectaculars: "I'll pass the torch to the next generation...
...barber, Milton Pitts, reports that when Ronald Reagan took office his hair was about 25% gray. It is now 30% gray. The President has added a second hearing aid in the past year or so. He uses three combinations for his eyes: hard contact lenses for normal activities, half glasses over the contacts for reading, and a single contact lens (left eye) for giving speeches on podiums where he needs to focus on the audience and the TelePrompTer at the same time. Reagan still has his suits made with buttons on the flies. He refuses to wear makeup for television...
...Reagan understands well enough how to function in that world. Last week the Senate pushed forward his chief domestic priority, tax reform, and the House advanced one of his greatest foreign policy goals--aid to the contras fighting in Nicaragua. It was a fine seven days for the White House. Reagan had nominated Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist to become Chief Justice, and Antonin Scalia to fill Rehnquist's seat, and they promised to be eminently successful nominations. In the months before, the Philippines and Haiti had gone his way, toward democracy. He had struck back at Muammar Gaddafi...
...strengthening the Aquino government, partly because of its democratic principles and partly because Washington is worried by the continuing Communist insurgency in the Philippines. Shultz came armed with a check for $200 million that was previously promised to the Philippines but then held up in the complicated U.S. foreign aid appropriation process. While Aquino gladly accepted the funds, several Filipino officials grumbled that the check was not nearly generous enough. Retorted Shultz: "It's only $200 million, but I'm still a small-town boy and I think that's a lot of money...
...bullish on the Philippines," Shultz told a news conference before departing. Still, such rhetorical support is about all Aquino can expect. She readily conceded that the current U.S. foreign aid allotment, which totals $500 million for the fiscal year, "is as far as American government assistance will go." To raise more money, she plans to turn a scheduled U.S. visit next fall into a private-sector fund-raising drive to encourage foreign investment in her country...