Word: thanked
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...nine foundations and political-action committees for right-wing causes. He has raised money from such well-known conservative donors as Ellen Garwood of Austin, who once gave a helicopter to the contras. At a dinner in Washington's Willard Hotel on Nov. 11, North presented Channell with a thank-you letter from Ronald Reagan, expressing the President's appreciation for Channell's pro-contra efforts. When Congress was debating a resumption of military aid to the contras, earlier this year, Channell's Liberty endowment boasted that it would spend more than $2.5 million "in support of our President...
...Right now, I am just looking for some time in these special holidays that I was allowed, and thank God I was able to be free and be with my family, and I'm looking for a little private time with them," he said...
...peered over. Thank God, it's the Castle in the distance. Then my eye fell down from the majestic styrofoam parapets across the enormous parking lots and back toward the mound...
...month, an American hostage, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, was freed. In his press conference last week, Attorney General Edwin Meese contended that Reagan did not know about the Israeli shipment until after it had occurred, but he did not specify when the President was told. Reagan telephoned Peres to thank him for his help in winning the clergyman's release. Thus the mold was cast for future swaps involving arms and hostages...
Thus the break between the President and Enrile was at last complete. On Friday morning, during a groundbreaking ceremony for a new chapel on the outskirts of Manila, she went out of her way to thank him for the role he had played in the February revolt, but he was not pres-ent to receive the compliment. In a ceremony at the Defense Ministry four hours later, Enrile received the Philippine Legion of Honor, the nation's highest civilian award, which is customarily presented to the recipient by the President in person. On this occasion, however, Aquino...