Word: aid
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...Nicaraguan contras, which formed the focus of the Tower board's report in February. Instead, a central issue this time will be the role Administration officials played in pursuing a secret and possibly illegal foreign policy by using a shady cadre of private and semiprivate operatives to supply military aid to the contras when such aid was restricted by Congress...
...staffers refer to as an exploration of "Contra, Inc." Secord will be followed by Robert McFarlane, the former National Security Adviser, who has testified extensively about his unfortunate dealings with Iran but not about the secret contra resupply. He was at NSC when the Boland Amendment banned direct military aid to the rebels...
Next will come the fund raisers who made the private military aid possible. They will include retired Army General John Singlaub, who solicited money openly for the contras on a worldwide basis; Barbara Studley, a rather mysterious friend of Singlaub's; Ellen Garwood, the Texas multimillionaire who donated lavishly to Channell's groups; and Jane McLaughlin, a former Channell aide who has spoken freely about his White House ties. Hakim, expected to return from living abroad, will flesh out the details of secret money transfers through Switzerland and the Cayman Islands...
University officials and representatives of the Boston Foundation Wednesday unveiled a pilot project to aid impoverished mothers in the Mission Hill area...
Dietrich intends to concentrate in the areas of history, American religious thought and economics to aid in his coverage of national security issues, and of the new religious currents he sees developing in the Northwest...