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President Bush should be treated no less mercilessly. According to a recently released Justice Department report, he may have coerced the government of Honduras into contributing millions to support the Nicaraguan Contras. His repeated trips to the Central American country and varied tactics paint a picture of a person eager to guarantee the donation of big bucks...
...charges focus on an alleged attempt to cover up various aspects of a secret Reagan Administration operation to aid the Nicaraguan rebels...
Shortly before North took the stand, the defense read to the jury an extraordinary 42-page "admission of facts," disclosing that secret efforts to provide support for the Nicaraguan contras involved not only North but also Ronald Reagan, former Secretary of State George Shultz, CIA Director William Casey and, most important, George Bush. The court paper was supplied by the staff of independent counsel Lawrence Walsh with the approval of Attorney General Dick Thornburgh. It had been drawn up to satisfy North's attorney, Brendan Sullivan, who had fought for months for the right to use classified documents to demonstrate...
When he was Vice President, Bush personally assured Honduras that it would be ! well rewarded for its role in a secret U.S. plan to keep the Nicaraguan rebels supplied. -- Hugh Sidey on the incredible shrinking presidency. -- Racial bloc voting prevails in Chicago's mayoral election, but in Virginia the pattern may be broken. -- The strange exile of a terrorist target...
However, the newly-released documents reveal that Reagan and his senior associates actively coordinated elaborate efforts to encourage third countries to give military aid to the Nicaraguan Contras in return for aid from the United States...