Word: aide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Government programs for the truly needy, such as Medicaid, unemployment benefits, housing assistance and Aid to Families with Dependent Children, are shamefully inadequate. We need a social welfare system that makes adequate provision for the most vulnerable members of society...
While North Americans begin to build a consensus on the need to cut off military aid to El Salvador--aid that now amounts to $1.4 million dollars per day--Cristiani has desperately tried to deflect attention away from the recent abuses. Last week he broke all diplomatic and commercial ties with Nicaragua, which he claims is supplying arms and training to the guerrillas. He also announced his refusal to attend the next round of Central American peace talks, scheduled to be held in Nicaragua...
This is true, but it is irrelevant to a discussion of whether Israel is violating democratic principles. If the U.S. is to continue to grant Israel the largest portion of its foreign aid, we ought to assess the strength of its commitment to democracy...
...long run, as the oil-producing gulf states become more geopolitically important and the relative importance of Israel declines, friends of Israel will have only one card to play when soliciting aid from the U.S. That card is political democracy and respect for human rights. Jews should be pressuring Israel to guard that card scrupulously, or they could find that they are Israel's only remaining friends...
...important that Harvard play a strongrole in having varied foreign students to educateour students," said Dean of Admissions andFinancial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons '67."Undergraduates, after all, learn from fellowundergraduates...