Word: aid
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Reagan resorted to similar desperation tactics last month to gain support for his unpopular, idiosyncratic policy. The day before the Senate voted on his aid request, Reagan's Administration--in the words of a senior Honduran official quoted in The New York Times--"deliberately exaggerated the seriousness of Nicaragua's recent border raid and pressed Honduras to ask for $20 million in aid...
...Senate voted to approve the aid, and members of the House who had voted against it the week before were ridiculed by the Administration and its lackeys as naive fools who were "soft on communism...
...boys in the White House deceitfully played up what was only the most recent of many such border raids in an effort to coerce the Senate to approve their aid request. They give millions to people trying to topple the Sandinistas, and then have the never to cry foul when the Sandinistas fight back...
Because of the climate of fear and hysteria the Administration has created, the Reaganites can expect the House to approve their aid request next week. While allegedly trying to bolster the democratic process in Central America, then, the Administration apparently has little respect for it here at home...
During the next week, the New England Central American Health Rights Network hopes to solicit from New England colleges another $18,000 worth of supplies to aid the university, which the U.S. government has denied aid arguing that it poses a threat to El Salvador's American-backed regime, organizers said...