Formal rejection followed a day later, and Congress approved $27 million in non-military aid to the contras less than two months after that.
The Senate has voted $9 million in new non-military aid to the rebels, plus continued C.I.A. authority to deliver weapons previously authorized.
The European Union has announced a package of non-military aid.
And House leaders left out one proposal Mr. Reagan did want in the bill: additional non-military aid for the rebels fighting the Government of Nicaragua.
Total foreign aid - military and non-military combined - is now about $13 billion a year.
The Bush Administration began to restore non-military aid last summer.
Perhaps, however, its problems originate in the promotion of corporate profit as the driving force, in liberalism, competitiveness and the free market which prohibit non-military public aid?
He does favor $3.5 million in interim non-military aid, which the House voted yesterday - almost as if to support his view.
Sweeten this with non-military aid and trade openings from the European Union as well as the U.S. 2.
Soviet non-military aid was revived, but not military aid.
