Word: aides
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...addition to being an offensive powerhouse, Donato also gives the Crimson strong checking and an ability to steal the puck. Part of the reason why Cleary put last-year's NCAA Tournament MVP in at the end of the game was to aid the team on defense...
...collapse of communism in Eastern Europe could mean a reduced U.S. defense budget. And it means that America must spend more to support the thrust toward liberalization. To get around the money crunch, Senate Republican leader Robert Dole last week proposed cutting 5% from the funds allotted to foreign- aid recipients...
...savings in the $14.6 billion foreign-aid budget would go to East European nations and drug-fighting countries in South America. Nearly half the total is earmarked for five countries: Israel ($3 billion), Egypt ($2.1 billion), Turkey ($610 million), the Philippines ($360 million) and Pakistan ($490 million). Cutting aid to Israel is too sensitive an issue for most lawmakers, and aid to Egypt has been inviolate since the 1978 Camp David accords. Dole's idea may be politically inexpedient, but it underlines the need for flexibility at a time of rapid change...
Pope John Paul II, who was born in Poland, has called for "vigilance," warning that "conflicts between ethnic minorities can be rekindled and nationalistic feelings can be exacerbated." The European Community, Japan and the U.S. can help relieve the ethnic pressures with economic cooperation and technical-aid programs. At a two-day meeting in Paris last week, representatives of 27 Western nations laid the groundwork for a $12 billion development bank to channel loans to emerging private businesses in the Warsaw Pact countries. But money without artful diplomacy will not completely exorcise the ghostly rivalries that increasingly haunt Eastern Europe...
Health-minded shoppers wandering through supermarkets these days are understandably bewildered about what to buy. Barraged by conflicting ^ nutritional advice and hyperbolic health claims for various foods, consumers are no longer sure what is good or what is bad for their bodies. Soon they will have a new aid intended to help them navigate grocery aisles more easily. Starting next month, some food packages will bear a logo from the American Heart Association, a heart with a superimposed check mark and the legend TESTED & APPROVED...