Word: offerred
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...loans. At a farmhouse in the mountains, Vesco outlined a preposterous plan. If the Carter Administration would promise him leniency, he would order six Latin American countries under his "control" to support the Panama Canal treaty. Back in the U.S., Bartlett and his law partner, Harry Wingate, conveyed the offer to Secretary of State-designate Cyrus Vance, who rejected...
...week later Hardin decided that he should tell Carter about the offer. During a five-minute meeting, Carter urged Hardin to report any future contacts with Vesco's emissaries to the Justice Department and scrawled a message to Attorney General Bell?the same note that surfaced last week. Then, so the White House says, the President pushed the matter from his mind. What happened to the note next is unclear. Bell says he never received it. Neither Lee nor any other Vesco representative ever called on Bell...
...question remained of whether Hardin, who declined comment, had ever informed law-enforcement agencies about his talk with Lee. On further checking, White House aides said they found that the only person Hardin had reported the offer to was the President. A search of Justice Department files then turned up the message from Carter to Bell. If nothing else, the lost note and the persistent friends of Mr. Vesco were causing the kind of contretemps the White House could do without...
...shown that most of Nicaragua's 2.6 million people are bitterly anti-Somoza. In town after town, armed only with pistols and hunting rifles, ordinary people ignored danger and risked reprisal to support the guerrillas. In León, an elderly doctor, patching up the wounded, paused long enough to offer this defiant assessment: "Our wounds will never heal, not as long as that murderer of his people remains...
Policymakers in Washington and other Western capitals are in as excruciating a dilemma as Amin. Do they offer aid to prop up a shaky regime ?which then might drop in the Russians' lap? Or let the government collapse?and risk a widening guerrilla war in an unstable region? Moscow, which has waited patiently since the time of the czars to consolidate its hold, faces no such agonizing choice...