Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...approached two students enrolled in the summer school's secondary school program and engaged them in a conversation, suggesting that he could help them gain admission to Harvard College. He later asked them to dinner and, according to a flier distributed to students, "served them large quantities of alcohol, brought them back to his apartment and engaged them in sex against their will...
...Will your improved relations with Syria help...
...What could the Saudis do? When your country is threatened, you have to protect yourself. Many nations over the years have called for help from foreign armies. Even Egypt brought in Soviet troops after the 1967 defeat by Israel...
Scarcely a day earlier, Warriors from another Mohawk community, the Kahnawake reserve, had agreed to put down their rifles and had actually begun to help Canadian soldiers tear down the barricades the Indians had erected to block the Mercier Bridge into Montreal. That was the best news in weeks, and a sign that the crisis might be easing. But that was before the army's action at Kanesatake...
...given new ammunition to skeptics who contend that, Soviet threat or no Soviet threat, the U.S. needs every high-tech weapon system it can develop. The Pentagon budget will still be cut, but perhaps by as little as $10 billion, obliterating any chance that a substantial peace dividend will help relieve pressure on the government deficit. "Every politician will cite the gulf crisis as a justification for his favorite weapon," says Lawrence Korb, a former Pentagon official now at the Brookings Institution in Washington. For example, Senator Robert Dole has already argued that Iraq's move proves the need...