In view of Thai sensitivity, a State Department spokesman said, "we have no intention of seeking overt lethal assistance" for the guerrillas.

"The .7 Guild is watching you, Rhombur Vernius, but we can offer you 1 no assistance, nnnn, no overt assistance."

While the Central Intelligence Agency has provided covert support to Iraqi dissidents in the past, this is the first overt military assistance.

It has chosen to seek overt assistance to support a democratic election process aimed at helping to compel the Sandinistas to permit largely free and fair elections.

The CIA "continued this aid after the termination of overt military assistance in 1990."

"The significance is that we're going to be able to operate inside Iraq with overt American assistance."

Fearing that Philip could offer overt military assistance, Rome hoped to confine the Macedonians to the east of the Roman province of Illyria.

Our cases have found state action when private parties make extensive use of state procedures with "the overt, significant assistance of state officials."

The planning authority may similarly welcome some assistance, overt or otherwise, in appreciating such before major commitments are made.

He points out that training in the US of Indonesian Army personnel continued even as overt military assistance dried up.