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Like many other issues that have sprung into the legislative hopper of Congress from grass-roots American concern, the final House resolution was a compromise. Originally, the document called only for the Reagan Administration to pursue an "immediate, mutual and verifiable" nuclear arms freeze with the Soviets at the ongoing arms-limitation talks in Geneva. The White House insisted, however, that an acceptable arms-reduction agreement would have to be reached before an arms freeze could take place in order to prevent any Soviet advantage in bargaining. Under the sponsorship of Republican Henry Hyde of Illinois and Democrat Elliott Levitas...
Soon after the early Nicaraguan smuggling operations into El Salvador, Washington began trying to document Marxist-Leninist interference in that country. In February 1981 the Reagan Administration sent a white paper to its West European and Latin American allies, concluding that the Salvadoran civil war had been "transformed into a textbook case of indirect aggression by Communist powers...
...sometimes acrimonious testimony before the committee's Interior Subcommittee, Garrey Carruthers, Assistant Secretary for Land and Water Resources, maintained that the sale brought the Government $11 million more than the department's original $55 million estimate. The congressional report is "a poorly prepared and deceitful political document," he fumed. "We do not give coal away...
When CBS duly surrendered the study last week, Westmoreland's lawyers termed the document "devastating," while CBS shrugged it off as consistent with the original Sauter memo. "They were hoping to find a smoking gun," said Sauter. "There isn't even the smell of cordite...
Recently leaked top-secret American documents seem to prove the opposite. They show that the U.S. foreign policy makers were aware that Indonesian President Suharto was concerned about world opinion and resisted the demands of his generals to annex East Timor for over a year. These leaked documents were passages from the "National Intelligence Daily," a briefing document published by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for a small, specially cleared audience in Washington--which included, the President of the United States. These leaked intelligence briefs, published in the Australian newspaper National Times in May and June...