Word: aide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republican side, Jack Kemp could ask Dukakis what he would do as president if, with aid to the contras cut off, the Sandinistas suddenly renege on their promises to abide by the Arias Plan, cracking down on all internal opposition. Bob Dole could demand that Dukakis explain what exactly "good jobs at good wages" means and how he would achieve such a goal without unleashing inflation...
...second principle is that spending cuts should come from subsidies to the middle class, not genuine Government investment or programs that aid the poor. Obvious targets are farm programs, Social Security and our disproportionate share of the defense of Europe and Japan, which is a subsidy to middle-class foreigners. But merely to list these is to build a monument to hopelessness. That's why, for all the candidates' bluster, salvation will probably come, if at all, on the revenue side...
...valued at $8 million aboard a Haitian freighter last month and followed the shipment to a delivery point in the city. There they arrested two Colombians and five Haitians, one of whom carried a handy "get-out-of-jail" card that read, "Legally constituted authorities are requested to give aid and protection to the bearer." The signer of the card: Colonel Jean-Claude Paul...
...killing nearly 100 people and leaving 1.5 million homeless. In Khartoum, the capital, sewage-contaminated floodwater swept through squatters' camps, destroying thousands of homes. Farther north, whole villages were submerged. In the famine-stricken south, roads and rail lines were swamped, preventing relief shipments from getting through. According to aid officials, more than a hundred people starve to death every day. Many more are so weak from hunger they can barely crawl...
...First Salute is an Old World look at the New. There are no re-enactments of Paul Revere's ride, no echoes of the shot heard round the world. Instead, the critical naval battle in Chesapeake Bay and Washington's victory (with essential French aid) over Cornwallis at Yorktown are presented in the context of political decisions and misjudgments made thousands of miles across the Atlantic. Young America produced an unusual number of intelligent and bold leaders, but, to Tuchman, the success of its war of independence rested largely on the outcome of European struggles for colonies and commerce...