The nation's sports minister, Alejandra Benítez, told the Caracas daily Últimas Noticias that her signature had been forged on more than 60 requests for American dollars by members of race car teams.
(That seems to be at least partially true; a sign that for years hung at Preservation Hall offered song requests for a dollar, unusual requests for two, and "The Saints" for five).
And really a war that we supposedly started to catch these very perpetrators has now cost, according to this week's Congressional Budget Office numbers, three hundred and forty-five billion dollars, with a new request for thirty-three binlion dollars in the works.
The board has fairly wide latitude to reject a campaign's request for taxpayer dollars.
He had replaced the smart grid with a request for twenty billion dollars in funding for high-speed trains.
Senator Kit Bond, Republican of Missouri and chairman of the spending panel that finances NASA, said that any request for extra dollars would depend on "the determination by NASA on what went wrong and what do they need to fix it".
Immediately after the Argentine coup, on Kissinger's recommendations, the U.S. Congress approved a request for fifty million dollars in security assistance to the junta; this was topped off by another thirty million before the end of the year.
A similar secret request, for four hundred million dollars or more to modify the Jimmy Carter, a Seawolf-class nuclear submarine, for top-secret agency intelligence work, was approved — evidence that the White House believes that more covert operations will solve the nation's coming intelligence problems.
The news in his speech was the request for eighty-seven billion dolland and the decision to ask for international troops, but the greater significance lay in what Bush told us about his own beliefs and, therefore, about what the country is committed to while he is President.
