Original sentence: " Critics objected to his comparison of the Contras to the Founding Fathers and to the French Resistance.Reagan's denial of awareness of the scandal belied his signing a secret presidential "finding" describing the deal as "arms-for-hostages
Edited sentence: Bush, days before the trial was set to begin.Critics objected to his comparison of the Contras, who were responsible for murdering women and children , to the Founding Fathers and to the French Resistance, which suggests that he viewed the Sandinistas as Communists who were akin to an occupying power.Despite a United Nations General Assembly resolution demanding compliance, the U.Large volumes of documents relating to the scandal were destroyed or withheld from investigators by Reagan Administration officials.Reagan's denial of awareness of the scandal belied his signing a secret presidential "finding" describing the deal as "arms-for-hostages".The U.by El Salvador, to whose defense the U.claimed it was coming by its actions in Nicaragua.had not accepted the court's jurisdiction and did not argue the merits of its case, nor did the court accept the intervention on the behalf of the U.never paid the required fine and since 1991, relations with Nicaragua were friendly