Word: aide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week seemed timid and tentative. In response to a deadline imposed by Congress in 1986, the President struck Panama from a list of nations certified as cooperating with the U.S. in reducing the production or transport of drugs. Any such "decertified" nation loses half of its U.S. economic aid and faces American opposition to requests for loans from international lending agencies. But the move was only symbolic, since U.S. aid to Panama was discontinued last year after anti-American demonstrators attacked the U.S. embassy...
...only other nations on the U.S. aid blacklist because of drugs are Iran, Afghanistan and Syria, none of which have received official American aid for years. The President claimed that the Bahamas, Colombia and Mexico have made progress against drugs, even though the Bahamas is widely known as a money- laundering and transshipment point for drug dealers, Colombia has made no visible headway against its notorious Medellin cartel and Mexico is the base of ever growing drug-smuggling traffic across the porous U.S. border...
Many local officials were far from impressed by the federal efforts. After calling the President a "wimp" in the drug war, New York's caustic Mayor Koch complained that "we are sending economic aid to countries that are killing our children. We are paying for our own lynching." Arguing for massive military interdiction, Koch declared, "The Communists aren't crossing our borders. The drugs are. The political aim of the drug traffickers is to make addicts...
WASHINGTON--Former Reagan aide Robert C. McFarlane pleaded guilty yesterday to misdemeanor charges that he misled Congress by assuring lawmakers the administration was not helping arm Nicaraguan rebels during a ban on U.S. military aid...
...comedies: courtly manners and the difficulties of love. There is a great deal of witty dialogue and a plot involving a series of deceptions and betrayals that eventually lead to a union of two lovers. Unfortunately, the two pages of background information included in the program do little to aid the audience's constant struggle to figure out who is doing what to whom...