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Throughout last year's presidential campaign, Bush insisted that he had no personal involvement in efforts to aid the Contra rebels. In written response to reporters' questions last year, Bush asserted that he "knew nothing of the shipments by the so-called private network of arms dealers to the Contras." Indeed, Bush premised much of his campaign on the United States's resurgence to a position of global strength during the 1980s...
Wright declined to field questions after his statement. After his impassioned public defense, Wright returned to the business of the House, appearing in the chamber to push for a vote on a $49.7 million Contra aid package...
...decade. The Bush Administration seems unsure how to manage the collapse of the long U.S. effort to build a strong centrist government in El Salvador. But it has accomplished a sharp break with the Reaganite past in cementing an accord with the Democratic Congress to wind down the futile contra war in Nicaragua. The reversal leaves U.S. policy with an uncertain future...
...parties could split again: at Democratic insistence, the agreement contains a provision for cancellation in November if the contras provoke violence. But for now the Democrats and Republicans have both signed on to a plan that guarantees the 12,000-man contra army will remain intact through next February, when the ruling Sandinistas have promised to hold democratic elections. That much had been an emergency goal for Bush, since the current U.S. contra-aid program is scheduled to expire this week. Congressional Democrats, who have grown resistant to such assistance since the Iran-contra scandal, accepted this program because...
...Approved a plan, suggested by North on Oct. 30, 1985, to air-drop to contra units intelligence information about two boats carrying arms to Sandinista troops. The drop would also include high-powered 106-mm recoilless rifles "to be used to sink one or both of the arms carriers." The memo, from North to McFarlane, was marked "President approves." Brendan Sullivan, North's attorney, told the jury that John Poindexter, then McFarlane's deputy, wrote those words...