Washington has banned aid to the air force unit responsible for the bombing.

Oct. 12: Congress bans direct or indirect military aid to the contras.

Congress had forbidden commerce with terrorist states like Iran and had banned direct and indirect military aid to the Nicaraguan rebels.

He referred to resolutions that ban military aid to the Taliban but not to its armed opposition.

But just two days earlier, Mr. Bush had issued a memorandum banning federal aid to overseas groups that provide abortion counseling.

Mr. Bush's action banned federal aid to international family planning programs that counsel or "actively promote" abortions, even with their own money.

International rules once banned such aid, and violators were subject to disqualification.

Earlier in the year, for example, President Bush announced that he would ban aid to overseas family-planning organizations that he said promoted abortions.

Those activities were conducted after Congress banned direct aid to the contras in November 1984.

I do not think, therefore, that you can accuse the Commission of banning aid to renewable energies.