Word: aide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Contras also agreed to accept only humanitarian aid from a neutral organization. This would rule out further military aid from the United States, which President Reagan has tried in vain to secure from Congress. U.S. aid ended...
...latest events make it clear that instead of sincerely complying with the peace plan, each side is twisting the plan to further its own ideological ambitions. The Administration, which fought long and hard against any non-lethal aid to the contras, is clearly using the events of this past week to win the recent debate over renewing military aid and thereby proceed with its announced intention of overthrowing the Sandinista government...
Reagan had proposed an alternative last week that would enable more institutions to escape regulation on religious grounds and limit most corporate compliance requirements to specific plants or facilities receiving federal aid...
With the cutoff of American aid to the contras in February, Managua believes it can win on the battlefield what it can't on the negotiating table. Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega displayed these noble intentions last week when more than 4000 Sandinista troops poured over the Honduran border in search of the main rebel supply depot. Was it just last August that Ortega signed the Arias Peace plan...
Oppressive poverty, political repression, lack of medical care, and the excessive concentration of power and wealth in a few hands are conditions which have given rise to rebellion throughout the region. Yes, Republicans have deferred attention from these pressing problems by favoring military aid and quick troop interventions. Yet by limiting its actions to countering the administration, Congress also fails to solve the true problems. The Congress should develop programs which would attack the underlying economic and social ills in Central America--something the United States has not even tried to do since the early 1960s...