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...struggles with big countries, big armies, big bank balances. Few, claims Kirkpatrick, even thought a place like Nicaragua was very "interesting." By chance she was speaking in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, her back to the huge oil portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, resplendent in his Rough Rider uniform atop Texas, his indomitable horse. T.R. said his charge at Kettle and San Juan hills in Cuba was "the great day of my life" and the dispatch with his revolver of a fleeing Spaniard was notable because the Spaniard doubled over "neatly as a jack-rabbit." It was Roosevelt...
...question is the Boland Amendment, a little-noticed rider tacked onto an omnibus Government-spending bill last December. Ironically, it was adopted at the urging of the Administration, as a substitute for a far more restrictive measure proposed by Democrat Thomas Harkin of Iowa. Harkin's rider would have banned U.S. support of any "military activities in or against Nicaragua"; the CIA argued that this would prevent necessary covert actions aimed at reducing the flow of arms supplied by the Nicaraguan government to Marxist-led guerrillas in El Salvador. So the House accepted, 411 to 0, a rider offered...
...least one purpose of the Byzantine contra command structure is to allow U.S. military and intelligence personnel to conform with a rider attached to the 1983 Defense Department appropriations bill, passed unanimously by the House of Representatives last December. It forbids the Administration to use funds for "military equipment, military training or advice, or other support for military activities, to any group or individual, not part of a country's armed forces, for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Nicaragua or provoking a military exchange between Nicaragua and Honduras...
Dole failed by ten votes to kill Kasten's rider; Kasten failed by only one vote to end Dole's filibuster. The impasse was broken when Kasten succumbed to the heat from Senate Republican leaders and agreed to withdraw his rider, in return for a promise that he could attach it to trade legislation due to come up for action next month. The Senate then quickly passed the jobs bill; the $5.1 billion appropriation must now be reconciled with the $4.9 billion House version...
Jackaroo, n.: boundary rider, station hand, sheep drover...