Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wall will defend himself this week before the House Banking Committee. But its chairman, Henry Gonzalez, has already called for his resignation. Last week even George Bush left Wall to twist in the wind: "If part of the savings and loan problem proves to be management or regulation people that aren't aggressive enough, would ((I)) make a change? . . . The answer...
...Bush is a lawyer, so he knows I'm innocent until proven guilty," Wall replies. He is wrong, of course: Bush is not a lawyer, and Wall, although he seems to lack the venality of other players in the Keating affair, is not innocent. Like a number of other legislators and Government officials, Wall paid more attention to cosseting the people he regulated than to safeguarding the depositors and taxpayers who depended on his vigilance. Although Wall says | he now sees Keating's "half-truths and obfuscations," more than a billion was lost while he dithered over closing the vault...
Covert operations are supposed to be secret. But last week, word that George Bush had authorized a $3 million covert plan to topple Panamanian strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega leaked out before the operation even got under way. The Los Angeles Times reported that Bush had authorized the CIA to recruit members of the Panamanian Defense Forces for an anti-Noriega revolt. In a change of policy, the Bush plan reportedly authorizes a coup even if Noriega is accidentally killed. Asked about the report, Bush said, "It wouldn't be covert if I even referred...
...armed revolution that the Soviet Union will subsidize." Since then the pace of change in Eastern Europe has accelerated so quickly that the F.M.L.N. may be worried that it will be forgotten by its Communist patrons. Toward that end, the F.M.L.N. may have been reminding both the Cristiani and Bush administrations that with or without foreign Communist support, the guerrillas must be part of any eventual settlement...
...Bush Administration heeded the message -- then bent it to its own purposes, using the occasion to renew old charges against Moscow. Secretary of State James Baker told the Organization of American States that the Soviet Union "bears special responsibility because its arms and its money, moving through Cuba and Nicaragua, continue to support violence, destruction and war." While there was no evidence of direct Soviet complicity, there were indications that Nicaragua is continuing to arm the F.M.L.N...