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...financial and technical aid." Another group, Emily's List, was established last year to help Democratic women gain Senate seats. Emily stands for Early Money Is Like Yeast, and the organization has raised $200,000 for Missouri's Woods and Maryland's Mikulski. Republicans, on the other hand, generally funnel a portion of the party's campaign funds into women's campaigns...
Michael Armstrong, the New York lawyer who represents the stepchildren, told WJAR-TV of Providence that the offer was turned down because of loopholes he said would have allowed Miss von Bulow to funnel money to her father...
Western governments and relief agencies are mobilizing to fight the locusts, which migrate in clouds of billions of insects. The Food and Agriculture Organization last week opened a Rome emergency center to funnel assistance to stricken regions. Some $17 million in aid has so far been pledged by the U.S. and European Community members...
...Reporter Richard Mauer of the Anchorage Daily News joined with Computer Wizard and Free-Lance Reporter Larry Makinson to trace campaign contributions given to local officials. They uncovered a nest of questionable schemes, including one to funnel 20 seemingly independent $1,000 contributions to a single state senator in one day. "Without the computer," says Makinson, "this information would have remained buried like a treasure chest at the bottom...
...just suppose that all of the Reagan Administration's worst fears about the Soviets are true: that they are hell bent on destroying freedom and democracy wherever they can; that they are planning to take over Central America through their surrogates in Havana and Managua; and that they funnel arms and aid to every terrorist, drug trafficker and general bad guy in both hemispheres...