Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sponsored by campus conservatives. Not only does supporting the Contras violate truly conservative principles, but the raging debate over President Reagan's efforts to fund the Contras should be unnecessary. No conservative President properly mindful of what it means to be conservative would have ever sought the aid package...
Regrettable but not surprising, the moral pretense of aiding the Contras has garnered adherents from the religious right. Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network has funneled aid to the Contras through its "Operation Blessing" program. Jerry Falwell's Liberty Federation has lobbied for aid to the Contras and has encouraged its members to support the rebels. Moreover, during the Contras' lobbying efforts in Washington in March, some of the entourage conspicuously appeared in Lynchburg to meet with Falwell...
...wake of this ruling, ROTC did not make an appearance on campus for the next seven years. Students entering Harvard who had been accepted by an ROTC program were forced to choose between the two, although the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid promised to match any ROTC scholarship money lost...
...Tucson defendants, citing churches' traditional offers of asylum to those fleeing pursuers and the U.S. underground railroad for 19th century slaves, steadfastly claimed that they had a religious duty to aid people who fear abuse, prison or even death in their homeland. But to the Federal Government, which last year prosecuted 18,000 cases of smuggling illegal aliens, church activists warrant no special treatment. Says Commissioner Alan C. Nelson of the Immigration and Naturalization Service: "No group, no matter how well meaning and highly motivated, can arbitrarily violate the laws of the United States...
Deep cuts proposed by Reagan in housing programs and urban aid are avoided, although the Community Development Block Grant program would be reduced by 10 percent. Several government loan portfolios would be sold to raise money...