Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much discussed Boland amendment, which prohibited military aid to the contras, does not carry criminal penalties, but a conspiracy to violate it could be considered criminal...
Ollie's salesmanship provided the opportunity for long-demoralized contra backers at the White House and State Department to mount a new campaign for aid. As a Washington Post/ABC News poll indicated that public support for military aid to the contras rose to 43% on July 15, from 29% on June 1, White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater called North's testimony "helpful." President Reagan echoed North in his weekly radio commentary. "The American people are tired of the off-on again policy in Central America," he said...
...Administration may soon ask Congress to approve long-term aid to the contras of perhaps $150 million over 18 months, up from the $100 million narrowly okayed last fall for fiscal 1987. That would keep the rebels in beans and bullets until Ronald Reagan leaves office...
...could puff and perspire all over a stage on the Vegas strip and show up back home to sing some heavenly gospel. Whatever he did and however he sang, it always seemed as if he were paying the vig on some spiritual debt that kept mounting until, with the aid of a few prescription drugs, it finally crushed...
...that easy, of course. The criminal evidence is inconclusive, and may have been planted with the intent to mislead. Within the agencies he must rely on to aid the investigation, Rusty finds some people who are not Horgan's (or his) friends and who seem disinclined to hurry. And Rusty has an emotional tie to this case that he cannot reveal to any of his fellow professionals. Some months earlier, he had risked his career and his marriage of 17 years on a passionate affair with the murder victim. After a month or so, she jilted him and took...