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ased firm which is owned by Bill Daniels, a friend of the Bush family. According to informed sources,
Neil Bush's new job was secured with the help of John McMullen, a minority shareholder in Prime
Network and owner of the Houston Astros baseball team. Neil was lodging at the Houstonian Hotel, which
is also father George's voting address. According to press accounts, Neil Bush was still hoping to sell his
home in Denver for about $500,000. See the Houston Chronicle, July 17, 1991. To help defray Neil's legal
expenses, a fund has been established with the help of former Ohio Democratic Congressman and Skull and
Bones member Thomas L. "Lud" Ashley, president of the Association of Bank Holding Companies. a
lobbying group. In April, 1991 federal regulators ended their 14-month inquiry into Neil Bush by directing
him to refrain from future conflicts of interest in his involvement with federally insured financial
institutions. This was the mildest sanction in the official arsenal. In May, 1991, the FDIC agreed to settle
their negligence suit with Neil Bush and the other Silverado figures for $49.5 million. See the New York
Times, June 9, 1991.
24. Webster G. Tarpley, "Is Bush Courting a Middle East war and new oil crisis?", Executive Intelligence
Review, March 31, 1989. In early August, 1989, after the pro-Iranian Organization of the Oppressed of the
Earth had announced the its execution of US Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, Bush did post a
battleship and a carrier to the eastern Mediterranean, and a carrier in the northern Arabian Sea, thus
threatening both Iran and Syria, whose forces went on alert in the Bekaa Valley and elswehere.
25. "Stop Bush's Rush to World War III," New Federalist, February 11, 1991.
26. "Administration Attempts to Blunt Israeli Criticism," Washington Post, March 6, 1990.
27. "For Bush, Life on the Run Catches Up," New York Times, July 6, 1990.
28. Bush's Gulf Crisis: The Beginning of World War III?, EIR Special Report (Washington, September
1990), pp. 27-28.
29. Bon Woodward, The Commanders (New York, 1991), p. p. 205-206.
30. Nora Boustany and Patrick E. Tyler, "Iraq Masses Troops at Kuwait Border," Washington Post, July 24,
1990. See also New York Times, July 24, 1990.
31. "US Pursues Diplomatic Solution in Persian Gulf Crisis, Warns Iraq,' July 25, 1990.
32. Bush's Gulf Crisis: The Beginning of World War III ? (Washington: Executive Intelligence Review,
1990), pp. 28-29.
33. Woodward, Commanders, p. 218.
34. Woodward, Commanders, p. 224-229.
35. Washington Post, August 3, 1990.
36. Washington Post, August 9, 1990.
37. New York Times, August 4, 1990.
38. Woodward, Commanders, p. 253.
39. Woodward, Commanders, p. 254.