Word: support
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staff position claims that political involvement will cost PBHA the support of its volunteers. The historical record dissents. Involvement in political stands is nothing new to the organization. PBHA has for years affirmed non-partisan positions on issues ranging from minority hiring to toxic waste. All the while, PBHA has grown until, today, it is the largest student-run public service organization in the country...
...activists' customized salvage tug Greenpeace shadowed the sub, the support ships Kittiwake and Grasp repeatedly rammed the vessel, punching a hole in her side just above the waterline. Meanwhile, sailors trained fire hoses on the Greenpeace, flooding her engines, while Navy SEAL frogmen cut the fuel lines of one of two antinuke motorboats trying to disrupt the test. "A terrible outrage . . . an unbridled act of aggression!" cried Greenpeace's executive director as the group prepared legal action against the Navy. Just | outside the launch area, the battle -- and the test-firing -- were monitored by a Soviet trawler bristling with electronic...
Though the escalating violence is intimidating the population and eroding Barco's support throughout the country, Colombian officials contend that the season of terror is proof that their battle is taking its toll against the intended targets. "We're winning," insists General Miguel Maza Marquez, who as head of the DAS directs the government's offensive (he escaped injury in last week's bombing). "The chieftains no longer live comfortably. They are in the mountains. The best proof that they are cracking is the level of madness to which they have sunk...
...make a dent in the money-laundering trade, authorities will need more support from the financial community. "They're now willing to tell us about people coming in with bags of cash," says a regulator, "but as far as anything else goes, you can forget it." Yet many bankers think the feds have become indiscriminate in their crackdown. "They are characterizing traditional, ordinary, international banking transactions as money laundering," gripes Gerald Houlihan, a Miami attorney who represents financial institutions in money-laundering and forfeiture cases. "They are not going after money launderers, but are attempting to terrorize banks...
Despite these challenges, Bush is still buoyed by an element of good fortune. Gorbachev seems content to let the President move at his own pace. The Soviets and NATO allies support a stabilizing U.S. presence in Europe. And a gradually reduced Soviet threat may enable Bush to squeeze just enough money from the military next year to keep the federal deficit moving downward. Bush recognizes that he is the benefactor of a rare alignment of stars. "I'm a lucky person to be President of our country in these very exciting times," he said last week. But as the ground...