Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, the scene isn't as bleak as you implied. The House and Senate bills must be reconciled, and the NRA must slog through many more negotiations before it is close to its goal. Handgun control groups, championed by Sara Brady, wife of wounded Reagan aid Jim Brady, are still in the fight...
...enough for Harvard University to voice its concerns for the welfare of Third World and minority peoples, both in South Africa and in the University. To aid them genuinely Harvard must concretely respond to their proposals, whether it be for consultation about internship programs, the construction of a Third World Student Center, or the creation of a Women's Studies Program...
...administration of the $1 million fund [set up by President Bok to aid Black South Africans] must be restructured in accordance with democratic principles--i.e. so that all the elements of the Harvard community are represented on the Committee, that Black South Africans are consulted about the merits of any proposal designed to help them...
...purpose of the action is "to make a strong statement that we don't wnat any aid at all, and are outraged that Congress should even consider it, since the Contras are thugs, terrorists, and criminals," said Anne Shumway, New England Regional Co-Coordinator for the pledge...
...crucially important that our representatives in Congress know that we are not going to support the war in Nicaragua. Giving aid to the Contras is against both U.S. and international law," she said...