Word: supportively
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...troops. The Sandinista assault, grandiloquently characterized by the Reagan Administration as an "invasion," had prompted Washington to respond with paratroopers and infantry. There was "no intention" of sending U.S. troops into combat, assured the White House. Officially, the soldiers were there for a "readiness exercise" intended to show U.S. support for the Honduran government -- a rather dubious claim, since the fighting took place in a remote, uninhabited area and posed no threat to Honduran security. The real aim was to demonstrate that the Reagan Administration was not about to abandon the embattled contras. The clear, if unspoken, message...
...grant will increase departmental funds by $100,000 over a period of three years and will support scholarly research in Afro-American Studies, according to a statement by Nathan I. Huggins, director of the institute...
...called the plan "a great challenge for all Nicaraguans" and called on the United States "to support this effort and get ready to normalize its relations with Nicaragua...
Along with his stubborn unwillingness to support the civil rights cause, Reagan has vociferously opposed affirmative action programs of any type. The number of Black Reagan appointees the Cabinet, Administration, and federal judgeships is shamefully low. His slashing of federal funds to social programs, work programs and education has constructed prohibitive barriers to economic and social advancement in the Black community. A National Urban League report issued in January of 1987 asserted that the Reagan Administration's domestic policies were and are "morally unjust, economically unfair, and have widened the economic gap between the races...
...Women's History Week. It should be noted that Women's Studies, Radcliffe, and the Radcliffe Union of Students are also major sponsors of this event. The planners of Women's History Week, who are over-whelmingly graduate and undergraduate students, are not ungrateful for the Department's financial support. Yet as dozens of outstanding scholars come to campus each year, their brief but illuminating presence makes more apparent than ever the intransigence of the History Department when it comes to making senior and junior appointments...