Word: elliotts
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Meanwhile, about 2,000 people attacked the U.S. embassy, denouncing a recent U.S. Senate resolution that called on Noriega to step down. The State Department charged that Panamanian officials orchestrated the mob attack. Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams called on Panama's military leaders to "remove their institution from politics" and keep the politics more democratic...
...questions" echoed the attitudes of other witnesses. Even Cabinet officials showed little curiosity about the questionable activities of their subordinates or timidly shrugged off decisions with which they sharply disagreed. Secretary of State George Shultz, for example, termed North a "loose cannon" and told Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams to "monitor Ollie." But Abrams testified that he merely asked North if he was doing anything illegal. Like Hall, Abrams said, "I was careful not to ask Colonel North questions I did not need to know the answers...
...Congressmen also found it hard to believe what they heard from Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, the point man for the Administration's policy in Central America. The cocky, abrasive Abrams confessed to deliberately misleading congressional committees last fall when he claimed that the Administration had not solicited funds from foreign countries for the Nicaraguan contras. In fact, Abrams himself had requested a contribution of $10 million from the government of Brunei, but he testified last week that he was not "authorized" to tell Congress the truth on the matter. Abrams also told the panel...
...Abrams' colleagues at the State Department believe his days are numbered. Abrams will prove to be a liability next fall when the Administration asks Congress for $100 million in aid to the Nicaraguan rebels. Said one State Department official: "Contra funding is in deep trouble as long as Elliott is here...
...SELLER: Elliott Mishara...