Word: pells
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...Senate Armed Services Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee in March. At which time, pre-Stark, congressional leaders showed little interest in the issue. Post-Stark, they discovered that the Persian Gulf is a dangerous place and went into a frenzy of directionless activity. Except for Claiborne Pell, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He knows where he is headed. He introduced a bill (S1327) that prohibits the Administration from reflagging Kuwaiti vessels but urges a "United Nations peacekeeping force to protect nonbelligerent shipping in the Persian Gulf and to seek an early end to the Iran-Iraq...
...highest form of multilateral nonsense, however, is to pretend to fob off the responsibility on the U.N., as Senator Pell proposes. And Pell is not alone. Presidential Candidate Michael Dukakis spoke for much of the Democratic Party when he expressed opposition to American use of "armed forces in the gulf unless it does so in concert with other nations, preferably under the aegis of the U.N. Security Council...
This is not to say that higher education should stop worrying about financial aid or research money. As Senator Clairborne Pell said in an interview with The Crimson last week, the first priority for the nation's colleges and universities must be to insure that their gates remain open to students of all socioeconomic backgrounds...
...Administration's proposal would cut funding for student aid by 46 percent. The cuts include a $1.2 billion reduction in the Pell Grant program as well as a change in eligibility requirements. The new budget would disqualify any student from receiving a Pell Grant whose annual family income was over $20,000. The current income limit is about $28,000. This proposed change would effectively deny aid to more than one million students...
...largest of the federal financial aid programs, Pell grants, provides $3.58 billion to more that three million students annually. Nearly 540 Harvard students receive Pell grants, and almost 4,000 students at the College receive some type of federal subsidy...