Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perpetuate the arms race because no shield system could possibly be effective enough to convince the U.S. to abandon its nuclear weapons. He also cited the Reagan administration's argument that SDI could be used to protect U.S. missile silos as proof that the program is more an aid than an end to the use of nuclear weapons...
...enjoys being unpredictable. "He's not afraid to take a tough vote," says Chafee. Bradley angered some Democrats this spring by voting in favor of aid to the contra guerrillas who are trying to overthrow the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, he has come to believe that the Sandinistas are intent on exporting revolution in Central America. "I want to buy time for the fragile democracies down there," he says...
...impossible so instead he buys rebels, mainly people who were deposed by the Sandinista revolution or in disfavor with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Like the condottieri of renaissance Italy, these Contras live very well off of American money. (The House voted to give the contras $30 million in economic aid when these rebels don't even have a bureacracy to distribute it. It's likely that a lot of this money will end up in hands of Miami merchants.) The United States, by hiring these mercenaries, fits very snugly into the rich imperialist stereotype communists paint of America...
...Nicaragua away from the Soviet Union. Currently, the administration philosophy is that communism is an incurable cancer which must be rooted out violently. But we have other cures available to us which do not have the pernicious side effects of warfare. Let's spend our money efficiently on economic aid to that nation. Something the Soviet Union doesn't have the funds...
...restrictions on the research and products of genetic engineering which the Reagan administration released last Saturday will aid the biotechnology industry by creating a standardized set of federal guidelines, researchers said this week...