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Meanwhile, Congress grudgingly bowed to the White House last week and approved $8.1 million in humanitarian aid for the rebels. (The package: $4.6 million for food, clothing and medical supplies, along with $3.5 million to deliver the goods.) The stopgap allocation will help sustain the contras until Reagan can ask for fresh military assistance at the end of January. That will be shortly after Central American leaders are scheduled to meet in Costa Rica to determine whether the Sandinistas and the contras have tried in good faith to achieve a cease-fire. If the Sandinistas seem to be stalling, Congress...
...meantime, stopgap measures are in order. While they will by no means solve the fundamental problem of a university which relies too heavily on marginally-qualified TFs, they will help remove the worst features of the current situation...
...strategy for prodding Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista regime toward democratic reform. Most Democrats hope that Arias' visit will further undermine the Reagan Administration's dual policy of pursuing peace while trying to secure $270 million in new funding for the contras. Last week congressional leaders tentatively agreed to a stopgap provision of some $3.5 million in nonlethal aid to hold the rebels through a cease-fire scheduled for Nov. 7. But Wright and other Congressmen have indicated that they hope those funds will eventually be used to resettle the rebels...
...Shelters are stopgap measures," said Democratic Club President Jeffrey S. Behrens '89. "They solve the problem of freezing to death, but they don't get homeless people back into society...
...first misstep was choosing Beckett's Play as a filler piece. Richard's Cork Leg is a short play, but a more conventional stopgap than Beckett's artificial attachment might have been found for the Mainstage. Play uses a mere 10 square feet of the vast stage for 30 minutes. During this time, the only action is the motion of a followspot which reveals three actors mysteriously entombed in urns. For no apparent reason, they address the light as if it were in the process of tormenting them. Although the scenario is funny and somewhat chilling the first time through...