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...Middle East, opposing the transfer of AWACS planes and Stinger anti-aircraft weapons to Saudi Arabia. She was against the deployment of U.S. Marines in Lebanon. She sharply opposes the CIA-guided operations of contra forces against the government of Nicaragua. She voted against the Administration's request for $62 million in emergency military aid to El Salvador and supported strong requirements that any military aid to that government be tied to improvements in human rights conditions. She urges greater efforts by the Administration to resume arms-control talks with the Soviet Union...
Hard-liners within the Reagan Administration seized upon that request with glee. One low-level State Department cable even proclaimed that it "could lead to a significant shift from [Costa Rica's] neutralist tightrope act and push it more explicitly and publicly into the anti-Sandinista camp." Although the message did not reflect official policy, once leaked it produced an understandable outcry in Costa Rica...
Even so, the election marked progress for a country with one of the worst human rights records in the hemisphere (116 political killings and kidnapings a month). The results might also earn a small reward from the U.S. Congress, which is currently studying an Administration request for $10 million in "nonlethal" military aid for Guatemala, after a seven-year embargo on such assistance. Summed up the Rev. Kenneth Baker, a Jesuit priest and one of eleven official U.S. observers at the elections: "We have seen a tremendous hope in the future, but not necessarily a certainty...
...House report that was highly critical of the kind of FBI "sting" operation that snared De Lorean. The material came from the office of California Congressman Don Edwards, chairman of the subcommittee that prepared the study. Edwards said the copies were posted in response to what seemed a routine request from a San Francisco letter writer to forward the report to 13 people in the Los Angeles area. Said Edwards: "I think somebody is tampering with the De Lorean criminal case. I don't like the idea, and I sure don't like them involving me." FBI agents...
...influence completely waned: when Deputy Prime Minister David Levy considered challenging Yitzhak Shamir for the Herut Party nomination, Begin's son called Levy, presumably at his father's request, and urged him to withdraw. Levy did. The master politician may have given up his job, but not his touch...