Word: aides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Being sent to Burton's aid are Ohio's Rob Portman and California's Christopher Cox, both of whom served in the White House counsel's office under Republican Presidents. Gingrich hopes their experience will prove valuable to an investigation that involves complex legal haggling with Clinton's counsel, Charles Ruff. But the Speaker's real goal, says a close adviser, is "to encircle" the chairman and "put him on a shorter leash." The leadership has added to its leverage by setting aside much of the money Burton requested for his committee in a "reserve fund." "We only gave...
Janine R. Wedel, an associate professor at George Washington University who is working on a book about U.S. aid to Eastern Europe and Russia, said HIID has unusual influence in Russia...
...HIID is a unique position to recommend U.S. aid policy in support of reform, while at the same time being a recipient of the aid as well as overseeing other aid contracts," Wedel said...
...this essential aid, accepting alumni's children if all else is equal is "small compensation," according to Lewis...
...decided to abandon his ramshackle redoubt deep in a lower ventricle of Texas. He had sent out a "Mayday" on shortwave radio, calling on "any nation in the world" for assistance. "We have hostiles in the woods," he cried. "We are being invaded!" But no one came to his aid, and his supporters were beginning to trickle away. Even the ambassador's wife had decided to leave the combination lean-to and trailer that was designated the "embassy compound." Thus, shortly after 4 p.m. on Saturday, with barely the pretense of extraterritoriality, Rick McLaren, self-declared "ambassador, consul-general...