Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emphasis of human rights as a standard to determine which nations qualify for American assistance is one of the most striking changes in the Reagan Administration's approach to foreign policy. The Carter Administration had frequently threatened a cutoff of aid to foreign governments accused of trampling on human rights. But Reagan last month lifted economic sanctions, which had been imposed on Chile when the Pinochet regime refused to cooperate in an investigation into the outrageous assassination in Washington, B.C., of former Chilean Diplomat Orlando Letelier. Earlier Reagan welcomed to the White House Chun Doo Hwan, President of South...
Moreover, the Administration chose not just to demand a cutoff of the arms flow. It also gave all-out support to the shaky military-civilian junta now ruling El Salvador, sending not only American weapons but military training personnel. If that help enables the junta to prevail, the U.S. would indeed have broken a string of American setbacks and Communist successes. But if the junta should fall, either to the leftist guerrillas or -equally bad-to a coup by rightists misusing American aid, Washington would suffer an unnecessary setback round the world. The European allies and several friendly Latin American...
...least 30 of the converted apartments are occupied by people who have moved in since the 1979 cutoff date. David H. Gibbs, a tenant, said yesterday, adding that the condominiums have sold...
Since 60% of U.S. assistance to Nicaragua supports the private sector, an aid cutoff might well undermine the moderate, pro-democratic groups that the U.S. wants to encourage. It would also cost the U.S. its remaining leverage with the Nicaraguan regime and could give Sandinista hard-liners an excuse to end any pretense at political pluralism and turn even more openly to the Soviet Union and its allies for support. An American diplomat in Managua, fearing the results of an aid cut off, cited an ominous parallel: "Twenty years ago in Cuba, we left no doors open. Here, there...
...backstroke and 50-yd. backstroke. Palmer's time of 27.92 in the 50-yd. back was fast enough to qualify her for the AIAW National swimming championships next spring, and her time of 2:09.0 in the 200-yd. backstroke put her well under the Eastern Seaboard Championship cutoff...