Word: aide
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Robyn Gray, 27, an Atlanta accountant, benefited from a different type of aid. The single parent of a two-year-old daughter, she obtained a mortgage through a program that local bankers set up last year after a newspaper charged that the lenders were deliberately redlining -- or boycotting -- Atlanta's black communities. After hunting for a year for an affordable home in a pleasant neighborhood, Gray took out a 9.25% fixed-rate mortgage. Even then she needed help from her parents to make the $2,500 down payment on her $50,000, three-bedroom home. But without the bank program...
...local initiatives as it begins to consider new ways of promoting home ownership. After years of battling the Reagan Administration's wrecking-ball approach, which leveled housing funds from 7.5% of the federal budget in the late 1970s to 1.5% last year, many legislators now want the Government to aid first-time buyers actively. One bill, sponsored by Henry Gonzalez, chairman of the House Banking Committee, would create a $6 billion fund to make low-interest mortgage loans to first- timers who earn up to 115% of the median income in their communities...
...nation's high schools have long been a favorite hunting ground for the military. Caught between adolescence and adulthood, at an age when possibilities seem boundless but money often is not, graduating seniors are ideal candidates for recruitment into the armed services. With federally sponsored job-training and financial-aid programs virtually dismembered by the Reagan Administration, the military has sought to fill the void by stressing its willingness to outfit men and women for high-tech careers and provide aid for higher education. Says Captain George Karpinski, an Army recruiter in the Atlanta area: "Seventeen- and 18-year-olds...
...Reagan and other members of his Administration -- among them Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, CIA Director William Casey and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General John Vessey -- "personally and directly" took part in arranging deals to have other countries aid the Nicaraguan contras at a time when help from the U.S. was forbidden by law; they then allegedly ordered the arrangements kept secret. Sullivan hopes to show with this classified material that North was just following orders when he lied to Congress about his contra activities...
...Parsons' case, scholars dispute Wiener's claim that the new evidence about Parsons' recruitment of collaborators will aid those who have attacked his work as reactionary...