Word: nicaraguan
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...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 that Secretary of State George Shultz considered North...
...many Congressmen called for his resignation. Although Shultz insisted that his deputy would not resign, many of 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...
...course, rag or not, the Beirut paper went public with truthful information on the episode, something the President's Administration cannot boast having done. The current Senate hearings are of only a limited, investigatory scope, and the full repercussions of the Administration's dealings with the Nicaraguan contras and Iranian Shi'ites will not be known until Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh begins handing down indictments. What is clear is that the conclusions of the Tower Commission were wrong. The fault lie not with the President's "management-style" but with the President himself. Ollie North and his band of private...
Earlier yesterday, a Reagan administration lawyer was questioned closely by the committees about his 1985 legal opinion that has been used by some in the administration to justify secret aid to the Nicaraguan rebels...
Still, he stood by his opinion that congressional limits on military aid to the Nicaraguan Contras did not apply to North and the National Security Council...