Word: assistant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rivals also disagreed about South Yemen's role in the Horn of Africa. Robaye Ali, who had ordered 1,000 paratroopers to assist Ethiopia against Somalia in the Ogaden, did not want to use his soldiers against guerrillas in the breakaway province of Eritrea. Ismail...
...addition to his baseball responsibilities, Nahigian will assist Harvard in its football program...
...administration of Soweto, and we are going to decide on all its financing, where and when every penny is spent, and its overall planning." Thebehali's most ambitious project is to raise a $400 million development loan in Europe and the U.S.; the South African government will not assist in helping to raise or guarantee the loan, but it has agreed not to interfere...
...Zaïre and 100,000 of its citizens in residence there; and France, which thinks of itself as a mentor to French-speaking Africa. Carter immediately asked Paris and Brussels how the U.S. could help; at their suggestion, he quickly supplied 18 Air Force C-141 transports to assist in the emergency airlift. Considering the magnitude of French and Belgian assistance, it is doubtful that Carter would have wanted to take a more active role in the operation. But he has been increasingly concerned about the limitations Congress has placed on the President's freedom to conduct foreign policy...
...first refused to see her grandchildren after she was brought home from the hospital. But when the visiting hospice team began reducing her pain and reassuring her and her family in other ways, a new tranquillity set in. Finally, the woman even let the youngsters give her medication and assist her about the house. Says Murdock: "I felt when she died that it was a victory for all of us. None of us had any guilt...