Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that all of the Reagan Administration's worst fears about the Soviets are true: that they are hell bent on destroying freedom and democracy wherever they can; that they are planning to take over Central America through their surrogates in Havana and Managua; and that they funnel arms and aid to every terrorist, drug trafficker and general bad guy in both hemispheres...
...Central America? What better way to arm communists in the region, or to destabilize its fragile governments, than to create a war that is sure to destroy much industry and agriculture, to radicalize and embitter the peasantry and to make Soviet allies ever more dependent on aid and military support from Moscow...
...governments in Latin America seem to remember. Several South American nations--among them Argentina, Brazil and Columbia--have joined the Contadora group of Central American countries in publically opposing aid to the Contras and calling for the U.S. and Nicaragua to negotiate a peaceful resolution to regional tensions--something the Sandinistas have repeatedly offered to do, and the Reagan Administration has refused repeatedly...
Instead Reagan has engaged in a campaign of red-baiting abroad and at home. His penchant for intervention abroad threatens to destabilize the Middle East as well as Central America. His charges that congressmen who opposed the Administration's aid package to the Contras were either supporting communism, or being duped by those who do, echoed those of another great name caller, Senator Joe McCarthy, who campaigned against what he called "a conspiracy so immense" that it extended from Moscow to the heart of the U.S. government...
...Manila, government auditors last week charged that Marcos diverted $6.25 million in interest on U.S. foreign aid money for his personal use. Initially, J. Roberto Abling, the former executive director of the Economic Support Fund, a subsidiary of the U.S. Agency for International Development, admitted that Marcos may have pumped $1.75 million of that amount into the last election. Other AID officials denied there were any irregularities, although they said Marcos did make an unsuccessful attempt in late 1985 to siphon off foreign assistance...