Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-aid forces were no less vociferous. "The Administration is determined, absolutely determined, to kill the peace progress," argued House Majority Whip Tony Coelho. To lure fence sitters, the Democrats plan to offer an alternative, non-lethal aid package, dismissed as "beans and blankets" by the White House, that will be voted on if the Reagan plan is defeated. Grass- roots groups bombarded Congressmen with letters and calls, and one group previewed television spots that link contra aid to potential U.S. troop involvement in the region. Last week's disclosures by a civil rights group that the FBI has been...
...providing humanitarian assistance to the contras--is probably the best way for the United States to walk a delicate tightrope. Because the aid would be administered by an international agency such as the Red Cross, the U.S. would not violate the provisions of the Arias Plan prohibiting aid to anti-government rebels. And the Administration would preserve the contras as a lever, pressuring Managua into compliance with its part of the bargain...
When Colombia's anti-drug minister of justice, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, was assassinated by traffickers, Noriega allowed the cartel leaders to shift their operations to Panama to escape a crackdown in their own country...
Clashes between unions and administration are nothing new at these schools and others. Stanford has seen two strikes, one in 1974 and the other in 1982. And when B.U. clerical workers began to unionize in the late 1970s, administrators hired outside people to assist in the anti-union effort. At Cornell last September, 900 service and maintenance workers went on a three-day strike, their third since...
While in Egypt, she noted its transformation from a leader in the anti-Israeli coalition to a friend of Israel, after the Camp David accords. "I saw...that the Israelis were genuinely welcomed in Cairo. The Egyptians were kind of curious about them." She was also intrigued by the fact that the U.S. and Israel had not recognized the magnitude of the Egyptian policy shift...