Word: aide
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...nearby Naked Island for temporary repairs. But Exxon had trouble finding a dry dock that would accept the vessel. Cowper, who had cited the company's bungled attempts to manage the cleanup and called on the Coast Guard to take over, gave qualified approval to a belated offer of aid from the Bush Administration. The President remained opposed to the Government's directing the cleanup, but said he would provide personnel and equipment to help...
...there was ever any doubt that President Bush and former President Reagan were intricately involved in running the covert operation to arm the Nicaraguan rebels during a Congressional ban on such aid from 1985-86, government documents released last week should help dispel it. The documents strongly suggest that Bush, while vice president, played a more direct role in covertly arranging aid for the Nicaraguan Contras than he has previously acknowledged...
Throughout last year's presidential campaign, Bush insisted that he had no personal involvement in efforts to aid the Contra rebels. In written response to reporters' questions last year, Bush asserted that he "knew nothing of the shipments by the so-called private network of arms dealers to the Contras." Indeed, Bush premised much of his campaign on the United States's resurgence to a position of global strength during the 1980s...
...documents for the first time show that Bush backed a 1985 plan to increase Central Intelligence Agency aid to Honduras as an incentive to encourage the Honduran government to support the Contras. They also identify Bush as the emissary from the United States who informed Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova that the Reagan Administration was expediting delivery of more than $110 million in economic and military aid to the Contras. Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D.-Me.) said Thursday that such quid pro quo arrangements "were clearly inappropriate, possibly illegal, and involved the United States...
However, the newly-released documents reveal that Reagan and his senior associates actively coordinated elaborate efforts to encourage third countries to give military aid to the Nicaraguan Contras in return for aid from the United States...