Word: assistant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stickwomen (1-0), who didn't score more than two goals in any game last year, were led by Cindi Ersek's two goals. Char Joslin added two assists, and Sharon Landau and Kate Felsen added a goal and an assist apiece...
...provide economic aid if needed by the black African "frontline" states that are seeking to cut off trade with South Africa. In a television interview on the eve of the summit, Mugabe went further, telling reporters that he hoped the nonaligned nations would support military equipment and training to assist the black armed struggle in South Africa...
Just how much difference the aid will make is unclear. The Administration has been funneling millions to the contras since 1982 to assist their insurrection against the Soviet-backed Sandinista government, although in 1984 Congress restricted the help to "humanitarian" supplies such as boots and bandages. But Administration officials said privately last week that Nicaragua's Pacific coast may be targeted for raids and that the contras may attempt to seize and hold a small piece of territory along the country's northern Atlantic coast. Moreover, the military aid to the contras would be parceled out in installments and would...
...seemingly intractable trade deficit is reviving pleas for protectionism. This week the House of Representatives will reconsider ) legislation to assist the ailing textile industry by drastically reducing imports. President Reagan has vetoed this bill, but the House will now vote on a proposal to override that veto. Supporting textile protection has become a cause celebre for critics of Reagan's free-trade policies. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill at a Washington rally for textile workers: "It is time, Mr. President . . . to take off your STAY THE COURSE button and start wearing a MADE IN THE U.S.A. button...
...Bolivia and the U.S. were blaring the news: in the first use of a U.S. military operation on foreign soil to fight drugs, Army Black Hawk helicopters, armed with .30-cal. machine guns and escorted by about 160 U.S. soldiers, had been flown into the South American jungle to assist Bolivian authorities in wiping out that country's production of cocaine...