Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...support for the contras, begun in 1981, dropped off following revelations 14 months ago that CIA operatives had helped them mine Nicaraguan harbors. When the Administration began sounding out legislators on the chances for a resumption early this year, it quickly became obvious that there was little sentiment in favor of military aid. The Administration sought to get around this opposition by drafting the "nonlethal" formulation, and seeking to push it through Congress in the midst of a budget debate. Result: a defeat in the House by the squeaker difference of 215 to 213, with 14 Republicans voting against...
Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto denounced the House action as "a vote in favor of death, destruction and suffering." President Ortega announced that as a result of the vote, he was lifting a five-month-old voluntary moratorium on arms imports. That raised the possibility that Ortega would buy Soviet-built MiG jets, a move that Washington has previously warned might provoke a U.S. military response. Asked after his speech whether he had MiGs on his mind, Ortega replied cryptically that "Nicaragua is almost the only country in Central America that does not have the ability to defend itself...
...feds are trying to crack down, however. A bureaucratic struggle between free traders in the Commerce Department and Pentagon officials appalled by high-tech transfer has been resolved by the Reagan Administration in favor of tougher export controls. The military won the right to review export licenses, and has blocked sales like the shipment of machinery to test concrete strength to the Soviets, on the grounds that the equipment could be used to help harden missile silos. Since 1981 the Customs Service's Operation Exodus has stopped at the docks some 4,000 illegal shipments abroad, including crates destined...
...nations are like relations among people. But the problem is not so simple. Tensions that have persisted for 40 years must have some objective causes, and unless we can remove those causes, no personal relationship can possibly deal with it. We are doing neither ourselves or the Soviets a favor by reducing the issues to a contest of personalities...
Former Solicitor General Rex Lee, whose office argued in favor of the Alabama law, expressed "great surprise," given that the court seemed to be abandoning its recent inclination to "accommodate" religion. It had done so, for example, in cases upholding legislative chaplains and government- sponsored Nativity scenes. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's sixth vote concurring with the majority was another shock to conservatives. Her failure to support a more pro-prayer position, as did Dissenters Warren Burger, William Rehnquist and Byron White, is "staggering," said Dan Alexander, president of the Mobile County school board at the time Jaffree sued...