Word: indirectly
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...obvious possibility is that Walsh might accuse North and others of conspiring to violate the Boland amendment, which for two years forbade any direct or indirect Government assistance to the contras. As a civil statute, the amendment provides no penalties, but any Government official or private citizen found guilty of conspiring to violate the law could be sent to jail nonetheless...
...Secord's activities, and those of Government officials who assisted him, violate the law? The principal statute at issue is the Boland amendment, which from October 1984 to October 1986 banned direct or indirect Government military aid to the contras. Secord insisted that the Boland amendment did not apply to private citizens like him unless those citizens used money appropriated by Congress, which Secord said they did not do. He testified, however, that his network had received extensive help from Government officials; in addition to North, who oversaw the whole operation, these included several CIA agents and former Ambassador...
...opposition has long criticized the present constitution's indirect method of electing the President. The choice is made by an electoral college of more than 5,000 members, whose votes may be tampered with or bought and whose numbers are weighted by law in favor of the ruling party. Instead, the opposition has stubbornly championed direct elections. It believes that under such a system its candidate would have a chance of defeating a military- supported nominee...
...have the right to mandate the construction and repair of individual roads and bridges? Almost all the money in the $88 billion, five-year authorization bill is passed on to the states according to complex allocation formulas. But legislators know that it is hard to take credit for such indirect funding in a 30-second campaign spot. So in 1982 Congress decided to build a few roads and add a few expressway exits on their own. Thus was born the demonstration project, a legislative fiction that claimed these congressional highways, byways, off-ramps and repair programs were merely scientific experiments...
...Poindexter, says one, "is completely at peace with himself." The basis for his calm: he simply feels he did nothing wrong -- and certainly broke no laws -- in helping arrange secret arms sales to Iran and permitting Oliver North's gunrunning operations to the contras. "He had authority, direct or indirect, for everything he did," says a onetime adviser. Even on the diversion of Iranian funds to the contras, friends say, Poindexter believes that he was following Ronald Reagan's policies and that he kept the President adequately informed. Indeed, he is likely to testify that on at least two occasions...