Word: bushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason for the move: pressure from the Bush Administration's debt- reduction plan. A Sept. 13 agreement to ease Mexico's debt gives banks the choice of lending new money to the country or accepting a 35% cut in the value of their outstanding loans...
...past decade, will recede to the political sidelines. Cristiani said that after a settlement is achieved, "this military aid should turn into economic aid and keep on flowing into the country while it recovers economically." < Villalobos, who called for an end to U.S. military aid, voiced skepticism that the Bush Administration "would choose to continue indefinitely its support for the war." He also hoped for "proper relations" with the U.S. Last week the U.S. Senate voted to boost military aid to El Salvador by $5 million, to $90 million...
...oddly enough, arms control seemed almost peripheral in the wide-ranging talks Shevardnadze had with President Bush at the White House and with Secretary of State James Baker during two days amid the majestic scenery of Jackson Hole in Wyoming's Teton mountains. They agreed to hold a summit in late spring in the U.S. But the most astonishing talk concerned the Soviet Union's internal troubles, an unheard-of topic for superpower discussion...
...Congressmen as well. They fear the Administration is passing up a historic opportunity to move beyond the superpower confrontation and risking the danger that if Gorbachev is not helped, he will fall and be replaced by a hard-liner. Senate majority leader George Mitchell charged last week that Bush and company seem "almost nostalgic about the cold war." To many, the Bush team seems stubbornly reluctant to move beyond what the President calls a "show me" attitude...
...President Bush, as quoted by Gov. Richard F. Celeste (D-Oh.) at this week's education summit...