Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both U.S. officials and a good portion of the Cuban citizenry expect to see the new Soviet influence spread in a country which considers itself the USSR's greatest ally and which receives five to six billion dollars in aid each year. But Castro has characterized the new friendliness between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the new Soviet policies, as "difficulties from the camp of our own friends...
...percent increase over the revised budget for this fiscal year, the proposal states that the city faces a "substantial increase in the tax levy" for fiscal 1990 to cope with expected cuts in state aid to local government...
...budget, and the $101.3 million proposed five-year capital plan, continues efforts to repave streets, renovate parks and improve public safety, but these projects could be jeopardized if the financial situation worsens, Healy wrote. He called on the city to work with the state to find revenue for local aid, possibly by authorizing new types of local taxes or changes to Proposition 2-1/2, which in 1980 set the cap on local tax levies at 2.5 percent...
...aid for the contras is clearly a kind of mustering-out pay designed to keep the contras, currently bivouacked in Honduras, fed and clothed for another year, until a more permanent solution is worked out. To that end, the plan calls for the "voluntary reintegration" of the contras into Nicaraguan political life or their "voluntary regional relocation," language that makes it evident they are finished as a fighting force, barring an act of major treachery by the Sandinistas...
...diplomatic stakes are high for the U.S., which finds itself caught in a three-way tug-of-war between two allies who distrust each other. New Delhi still resents the pro-Pakistan "tilt" that has marked U.S. policy since the 1971 war. U.S. military aid to Pakistan is cited by Indians as the main reason why they embarked on their own buildup...