Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, in Washington the House voted 216 to 208 to kill $30.5 million in humanitarian assistance for the contras. The package, designed by Democratic House Speaker Jim Wright to replace a military aid request that he had helped defeat last month, was voted down by a strange-bedfellows' alliance of liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans. Ronald Reagan, who opposed the Wright proposal as too weak, indicated that he will continue to press for military help...
...expertise here outshadows those of his rivals. Considered one of the Senate's leading experts on arms control, Gore, along with other moderate Democrats, successfully has prodded the Administration towards a real arms control policy--finally culminating in the INF treaty. Alone among the Democratic candidates, Gore supports humanitarian assistance to the Nicaraguan contras as a way to honor the Arias Peace Plan and ensure Sandinista good intentions...
WASHINGTON--The House yesterday killed a $30 million package of purely "humanitarian" aid for Nicaragua's Contras that had been pushed by Democrats as a way to ease pressure for future military aid for the rebels...
Party leaders had argued that passage of this purely "humanitarian" aid bill would have lessened chances that Reagan could come back to Congress soonwith a request for weapons and ammunition tosustain the Contras...
House leaders have scheduled a vote for next week on an alternative support calling for humanitarian...