Word: documentation
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Last, Thursday, the House speedily passed the Administration's $175.3 billion military authorization bill for 1983, by an overwhelming vote of 290 to 73. The final document differed hardly a what from what the Administration had first requested--a symbolic 1 percent overall reduction, and a reneval of a $54 billion authorization for nerve gas production, were the only cuts which the House made without the approval of the White House. The white elephant B-1B bomber, the first-strike Trident 2 and Pershing 2 minutes, an unjustifiable and essentiatly priced MX missle, and a thoroughly absurd and unworkable "civil...
...page certification document offered no grounds for unalloyed optimism. The report admitted that the overall improvement "has not been as great as hoped" and that "serious problems remain." On the issue of human rights, the report claimed that the government of President Alvaro Alfredo Magaña "is making a concerted and significant effort" to curb violations. The study presented statistics from five sources showing that the number of civilian deaths from political violence has dropped considerably. Said Enders: "All available evidence suggests that the most serious violations are on a slow, downward curve...
...League of a six-point proposal for a settlement gave new impetus to a P.L.O. departure. For the first time, the Arab world acknowledged its "collective responsibility," as one U.S. diplomat in Washington put it, to ensure the evacuation of the Palestinians from Beirut. The key passage in the document, which was signed by Farouk Kaddoumi, head of the P.L.O.'s political department, stated: "The Palestine Liberation Organization declares its decision to transfer its armed forces from Beirut and define guarantees for this move, along with guarantees to be worked out between the P.L.O. and the Lebanese government...
...group, triumphantly declared that the statement implied that the P.L.O. was about to recognize Israel's right to exist. The Congressman said he would urge the U.S. to open direct dealings with the P.L.O. But McCloskey's euphoria was soon punctured. Within hours the so-called Arafat document was denounced by Israel as a propaganda ploy, and explicitly disavowed as a recognition of Israel by official P.L.O. spokesmen in Beirut, New York and Paris. That blow came after a stinging cable from House Speaker Tip O'Neill instructing the congressional delegation, whose trip he had routinely authorized...
...oceanside retreat house in Spring Lake, N.J., five U.S. Roman Catholic bishops assembled last week to touch up a controversial document. According to Peter Steinfels, executive editor of the liberal Catholic journal Commonweal, the document is "the most serious effort the church has ever made, here, abroad, or in the Vatican, to come to grips with nuclear war." The five bishops, led by Joseph L. Bernardin, the new Archbishop of Chicago, spent a year taking testimony from 34 specialists ranging from outraged peace protesters to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. They then sent a 66-page first draft of a nuclear...