Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accord between Nicaragua and the United States that would sever aid to the Contras in return for a Sandinista pledge not to help revolutionary movements outside the country would end support for democracy in Nicaragua, Abrams argued...
Fiedler, 49, rose to prominence as an outspoken opponent of school busing. She bills herself as the candidate most loyal to President Reagan and hammers away at Zschau's anti-Administration stands on such issues as the MX missile and aid to the contra rebels in Nicaragua (though Zschau has reversed himself to endorse contra aid...
...same day to the Swedish nuclear authority. The U.S. Government stepped forward to offer assistance, but the Soviets politely rejected it, saying that they had the means to deal with the situation. Moscow did invite Dr. Robert Gale, a UCLA bone-marrow-transplant specialist, to provide medical aid to Chernobyl victims...
...leaning Sukarno. After a bloody, abortive Communist coup in 1965, Sukarno's power waned, and he was eased out of office two years later by Suharto, an army general. The conservative, strongly anti-Communist Suharto earned a reputation as "the father of development," resurrecting a faltering economy with the aid of the 1970s oil boom. The son of a farmer, Suharto helped increase agricultural production, finally enabling the nation to become self-sufficient in rice...
...greatest threat to democracy, must be the first consideration. In the other view, the moral values that America stands for are more important, and ultimately more powerful politically. Much of the argument, however, is artificial. The Carter Administration tried for a while to put idealism first, by cutting aid to repressive regimes, but soon had to make exceptions for countries strategically necessary to the U.S. Conversely, the Reagan Administration came in with a policy of more or less indiscriminate support for anti-Communist regimes but soon learned that anti- Communist militancy and rhetoric were not enough by themselves to make...