The administration did not intervene and was later criticized for failing to stop the dominant Hutu ethnic group from killing hundreds of thousands of Tutsi.

The administration has intervened several times to try and influence how television covers this crisis.

Shiites in the south recall the Persian Gulf war in 1991, when the administration of President Bush's father called for the Iraqi people to get rid of their dictator but did not intervene when the Shiites began to rise up.

The administration intervened on the side of insurgent groups RENAMO in Mozambique and UNITA in Angola, supplying each group with covert military and humanitarian aid.

When the Haitian military, with the support of the business elite, overthrew Mr. Aristide after just shy of eight months in office, the administration of George H. W. Bush criticized the loss of Haiti's first democracy, but did not intervene militarily.

The tribe had donated more than $100,000 to the Democratic Party, hoping, according to testimony, that the administration would intervene on its behalf in a dispute over drilling rights on tribal land.

Reich said that the administration would not intervene in the dispute.

-is that if the administration intervenes, it makes it worse for the kid who's being bullied.

In addition, some of these newly written laws (like one in Connecticut) put more of an onus on the school system, mandating that the school's administration must intervene at the first sign of bullying.

The administration never intervened.