Word: assistant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Contra Leader Adolfo Calero testified that he gave North $90,000 in traveler's checks in 1985, supposedly to assist in the rescue of U.S. hostages held in Lebanon. Investigators, however, disclosed last week that North had cashed $2,000 worth and spent some in stores near his home. He bought, among other things, two snow tires for $100. Senator Rudman, using sarcasm to make the point that the money was not spent for any public purpose, asked Calero "when was the last time it snowed in Nicaragua." The contra leader allowed that it does not snow in Nicaragua...
...city, wrecking the stalls of Indian traders. One group hauled Indian taxi drivers from their vehicles, beating them and breaking car windows. The mob then charged 1,000 Indians in a city park and began punching and kicking them. An army unit finally had to be called to assist police in breaking up the melee. Both Australia and New Zealand had ships standing by near the port of Suva to bring out their nationals in case the rioting escalated...
...Only about $3.5 million of the $30 million that Iran paid for U.S. weapons was spent to assist the contras. Another $1 million was spent on other covert activities that Secord would not fully describe, and $2 million is still unaccounted for. Nearly $8 million is sitting in frozen Swiss bank accounts controlled by Secord's business partner, the Iranian-born Albert Hakim. What will eventually happen to this money is uncertain...
Wilson is skeptical of "race-specific policies" designed to help blacks, like affirmative action, which he says does little to assist unskilled ghetto youths while benefiting middle-class blacks who are better prepared to take advantage of education and job opportunities. Because of the low number of available jobs in inner cities, the author is wary of widely heralded welfare reforms designed to wean recipients from the dole by requiring them to accept training and jobs. Says Wilson: "If you do create some jobs for those on welfare, you're just going to take them away from the working poor...
...scorers in the game with four points, three goals and one assist, while Raymond added two goals of his own. Garvey scored one goal and had two assists, and freshman Parry Dodge rounded out the scoring by tallying a goal...