The funds were raised in the period when Congress barred the Administration from providing military aid to the rebels, an internal document of the group shows.

Congress barred intelligence agencies from providing military or paramilitary assistance to the contras in October 1984.

Last week, a Federal appeals court panel here invalidated the latest version of the regulation that bars family planning clinics from providing information about abortions.

This was in violation of Government rules which barred MPs from providing funds to organisations run by their relatives.

The army barred the Church from providing supplies to resettled refugee villages.

The resolution would bar the Republican National Committee from providing financial support, or any support at all, to candidates who do not agree with the ban.

Article 36 barred the state from providing pensions except for "actual services...and never for more than one year at a time."

A bill to bar the Bell regionals from providing information services was approved by a House panel.

But she said privacy rules barred her from providing any details about the missing soldier.

He joined their independent effort to help the rebels' cause in a two-year period when Congress barred the Administration from providing weapons to them.