Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That tactic enabled middle-of-the-road Republicans to join in. Announced New York's Jacob Javits, who had opposed Kemp-Roth: "I can go along." Added Illinois' Chuck Percy, who had taken little part in the negotiations: "We have jointly worked out a tax program." Gloated Conable: "This all happened while Jimmy Carter was in Portugal. It shows how relevant...
...most part, the document reflected the views of Carter's partisans on the platform committee. Senator Edward Kennedy's forces, outnumbered by almost 2 to 1, were defeated on all their major platform goals, including a huge antirecession program to create 800,000 jobs...
...either the Khmer Rouge or non-Communist groups known collectively as the Khmer Serei. All oppose the Hanoi-installed regime of Heng Samrin in Phnom-Penh. By midweek virtually all of the Vietnamese had withdrawn. But the action appeared to have slowed, if not halted, a United Nations program to repatriate to Cambodia any refugees volunteering to go. Moreover, with some 10,000 of their troops still poised along the border area, the Vietnamese remained an ominous threat to Thailand's security...
...camps, at Non Mak Mun and Nong Chan, had long been a source of annoyance to the Vietnamese. Non Mak Mun was the headquarters of a Khmer Serei group known as the National Liberation Front of Cambodia. Nong Chan was the main dispersal point for the "land bridge" program, operated by international relief agencies, that distributed rice, seed and other supplies inside Cambodia. The camps were also the sites of huge jungle black markets, where smugglers bought sarongs, watches, cigarettes and other consumer goods for resale in Cambodia...
Hanoi apparently acted also to show its anger over the U.N. repatriation effort. Viet Nam has charged that the program was a plot to strengthen the Khmer Rouge resistance. In the single week that it had been in operation, 8,700 Khmers had returned to Cambodia. Pol Pot's rebel forces somehow managed to survive Cambodia's dry season against overwhelming Vietnamese armor and airpower. Now that the monsoon rains have arrived, the Khmer Rouge's clandestine radio has announced plans to step up the guerrilla war against the 200,000-man Vietnamese army occupying the country...