Word: supplemental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visit to Washington two weeks ago, Pakistan's senior foreign affairs adviser, Agha Shahi, asked the U.S. for antitank missiles, air defense missiles, combat tanks, field artillery for its ground forces and transport aircraft for its air force. This new equipment is intended to supplement the 60 French Mirage III and Mirage 5 fighters, the 700 Chinese T-59 tanks and the assorted British, Soviet, Swedish and Argentine weapons. Islamabad purchased them-in large part with Saudi Arabian money-after Washington began limiting arms aid to Pakistan in 1965 because American weapons had been used by both sides...
...others on the quiet street except for a small sign in the front, the Place volunteers and staff counsel people over the phone and on a drop-in basis, maintain a file for 3000 Boston emergency medical, housing and legal services, and run a free mobile unit service to supplement the protection offered by South Boston hospitals. According to the 1978 annual report, Project Place "responded to over 62,000 calls for help from people throughout the Greater Boston area...
...have become ever more endangered as Congress has moved to dilute the Endangered Species Act of 1973. President Carter's moves to protect threatened species since he took office have ranged from the ineffectual to the non-existent. His decision in the next budget message to request funding to supplement the staffs of those agencies charged with enforcing the 1973 legislation is only a small step along the road of environmental sanity; the basic obstacles in the way of those who would prevent the extinction of hundreds of species remains...
...Quad, two low-slung brick buildings. Are they apartments? offices? passersby will ask. A single metal letter set on each bright orange door gives away the contents: W, K and J, which stands for Wilbur K. Jordan '28, the University official who decided in the late '50s to supplement the Radcliffe education with the practical skills every woman needed--cooking, cleaning, family life--by building some cooperative houses near Radcliffe. These are the Jordan coops...