Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military aid to Thailand has steadily, and the Reagan Administration hopes to provide more than $50 million in Fiscal 1987, up from the current $92.5 million...
Healy said the city would make up a substantial loss in revenue from federal funding by offsetting increases in new state aid and the city's new hotel/motel tax, which was introduced last year. He said the budget will will maintain city services and programs at last year's levels...
...education allocation would be funded with half of the new state aid and $500,000 of hotel/motel tax revenues in addition to other sources...
Administration spokesmen tried to transform public backing for standing up to Gaddafi into support for the less popular policy of aiding the contras. "Americans understand what type of people we have to deal with in this world," said White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan, speaking of Gaddafi, "and they expect that from time to time we as a great power have to assert our right. That has to carry over into the Central America issue. & Sure, contra aid is a divisive issue in a dirty little war, but it takes courage to do what's right in that situation...
American ambivalence about its superpower mantle is illustrated by the fact that congressional doves, many of them fearful of being labeled "soft" because of their opposition to contra aid, rushed last week to applaud Reagan's easy victory in the Gulf of Sidra. Yet they shy away from the tougher issue: how to apply steady and vigilant force as part of a policy for dealing with Nicaragua. Smacking Gaddafi may be cathartic and quick. But if the U.S. is truly going to face its responsibilities as a superpower, it will have to find a way to grapple with threats that...