Word: aide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Havana, Gorbachev will hold lengthy discussions with Castro, leader of the island nation 90 miles off the Florida coast. Castro has criticized Gorbachev's pragmatic reforms, and Soviet officials have said they may reduce aid in the future to the Caribbean nation...
Richard Melton, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for Caribbean affairs, visited Haiti on Monday and told Avril resumption of U.S. aid depended in part on Haiti's efforts to crack down on the narcotics trade...
...other big loser was the U.S., which has given its public support and $1.5 million a day in aid to Duarte since 1984, when his election inspired hope that the war might end. Washington desperately wanted to build the Christian Democrats into El Salvador's bulwark against the political extremes, both the Communist insurgents and ARENA, the paramilitary organization turned political party that has been closely linked to death squads responsible for thousands of political murders. But the well-intended Duarte failed either to negotiate a peace or restore his country's shattered economy; his government was widely despised...
Ironically, the U.S. is finding it easier these days to deal with Nicaragua. Late last week the White House announced a "gentleman's agreement" with Congress to allot $4.5 million a month in humanitarian aid to the Nicaraguan contras for the next eleven months while diplomats work at pushing the Sandinista regime toward democracy. The bargain ends, for the moment at least, a fractious eight-year battle between the Democrat-controlled Congress and the Executive Branch over how to handle Central America. The product of intense lobbying by Secretary of State James Baker, the agreement to fund the contras...
...Democrats and Republicans have both signed on to a plan that guarantees the 12,000-man contra army will remain intact through next February, when the ruling Sandinistas have promised to hold democratic elections. That much had been an emergency goal for Bush, since the current U.S. contra-aid program is scheduled to expire this week. Congressional Democrats, who have grown resistant to such assistance since the Iran-contra scandal, accepted this program because it effectively sets a date for the contras' disbandment and does little to interfere with the Esquipulas peace plan, adopted in August 1987 by all governments...