Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Ronald Reagan admitted two weeks ago that he had discussed contributions to the Nicaraguan contras with King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in 1985, news reports suggested that the President had knowingly contravened the Boland amendment. Or so it seemed to White House Aide Thomas Griscom, who marched into the office of Chief of Staff Howard Baker. Said Griscom: "At some point you've gotta say whoa...
...addition, Congress expressed dismay over Saudi Arabia's failure to intercept the Iraqi jet after an AWACS radar plane operated jointly by Saudis and Americans spotted it. Displeasure over the incident was so great that the Reagan Administration last week delayed submitting a proposal to sell new F-15 fighter jets to the Saudis. Remarked Byrd with considerable understatement: "I think it would have a tough ride right...
While the frigate dawdled along, its search radar sweeping the skies in a 225-mile radius, other American military eyes were also watching the gulf. Earlier, an Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) surveillance plane had taken off from its base in Saudi Arabia, which operated the electronics-laden Boeing 707 jointly with the U.S. On radar, the combined U.S.-Saudi crew detected a single Iraqi Mirage F-1 aircraft as it lifted off from the Shaibah military airport ten miles southwest of Basra at around 8 p.m. Heading southeast along Saudi Arabia's coast as Iraqi planes often...
...countries, an indirect form of support that Congress explicitly prohibited in October 1985. In a curious charade designed to avoid embarrassing nations that are friendly to the U.S., it was agreed that they would be cited only by a number. But it was clear that "Country 2" was Saudi Arabia, which had, at McFarlane's prompting, contributed $1 million a month to the contras since May 1984. In February 1985, the President held a meeting in the Oval Office with King Fahd. Just a few days after the visit, the Saudis told McFarlane they would double their monthly donation. When...
...week's end the President revised his argument, contending that even if he had solicited funds from Saudi Arabia, the law did not prohibit him from doing so. "There is nothing in the Boland amendment that could keep me from asking other people to help ((the contras))," Reagan told a group of newsmagazine reporters. "The only restriction on me was that I could not approve the sending of help myself out of our budget money...