Word: ap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newly obtained documents show that North participated in pro-Contra fund-raising at least as early as 1984. Last year, the AP reported that North developed a plan in early 1984 to enlist third countries and private individuals to aid the Contras in the face of congressional opposition. White House sources said President Reagan gave oral approval for that plan...
When Waite spoke to the AP in Beirut, he declined to say where he was or when he arrived...
Islamic Holy War holds Terry A. Anderson, 39, chief Middle East correspondent for the AP; David P. Jacobsen, 55, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut; and Thomas Sutherland, 55, the university's acting dean of agriculture. All were abducted...
...AP has previously reported that the White House, through outside intermediaries, managed the aid network that was established in 1984 to keep the Contras supplied, using funds from private individuals and third countries. Sources from inside the administration, the Contra movement and the private aid network identified North as the central figure in the secret White House operation...
...significant victory for antiapartheid activists, the California legislature ap- proved a bill last week that would withdraw, during a three- year period starting in 1988, some $11.4 billion in state funds invested in companies that do business in South Africa. Though as many as 119 universities, 19 other states and scores of cities have opted for or leaned toward divestiture, California's is by far the largest portfolio to be steered away from Pretoria...