Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not seem at all likely that the contras are going to make them vanish, at least anytime soon. Cut off from U.S. military aid by Congress since 1984, the rebels have been losing ground to Nicaragua's well-equipped, well-trained counterinsurgency battalions. A year ago, some 15,000 contras roamed the Nicaraguan countryside, mostly across the northern third of the country. Today only about 4,000 contras remain in Nicaragua; the rest have been pushed back into their Honduran sanctuaries. Last week, in raids timed to show the flag to Congress, 3,000 contras infiltrated across the Honduran...
...difficult to know; in a brutish guerrilla war, it is sometimes hard to distinguish between civilians and combatants. Although the U.S. military is currently barred from advising the contras, the Administration plans to send U.S. advisers to train them in their Honduran camps as soon as Congress passes an aid package. By instilling better discipline, U.S. advisers have been able to improve the behavior of Salvadoran troops; it is hoped that they would do the same for the contras...
...feeding, housing and educating millions of malnourished and underprivileged Haitians has been left in large part to the Roman Catholic Church. Moreover, no date for the democratic elections promised by Namphy has been set. The U.S., which helped persuade Duvalier to leave Haiti, made available $26 million in economic aid that it had previously withheld from Duvalier, but Washington has exerted little pressure on the new government...
...Tokyo, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone urged his Cabinet to devise emergency measures to aid the worst-hit Japanese firms and pledged to do more to calm down the dollar-yen exchange rate. On the following day, the Bank of Japan briefly intervened in the foreign-exchange markets, buying dollars to support the value of the U.S. currency. But no one could be sure that the bank would succeed, and a sense of helplessness came over many Japanese executives. Said an official of NEC, a leading Japanese electronics manufacturer: "It is like groping our way in the dark. All we want...
...papers released last week merely added to the mounting evidence of Marcos' misdeeds, including apparent fraud, corporate kickbacks and attempted embezzlement of U.S. aid. The incriminating material, which Marcos brought with him to Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii when he fled, became available after more than two weeks of legal wrangling among Solarz, Salonga and Marcos' lawyers. The maneuvering gave the Philippine government a foretaste of what it will face in the months, and perhaps years, ahead as it tries to recover the former leader's riches. The jockeying was also an early test of relations between President Reagan...