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...part, Helms is hardly a dispassionate observer. When D'Aubuisson's request for a U.S. visa was denied last November, the Senator loudly complained. Deborah DeMoss, a Helms aide who has visited El Salvador numerous times in the past year, tried to arrange a speaking engagement for D'Aubuisson at Georgetown University last January...
...deals with the fledgling Soviet state, and to this day Moscow holds Hammer in the highest trust. Two weeks ago, Hammer asked the Kremlin for permission to make a short cut across the Soviet Union to Peking from London, where he had been dining with Prince Charles. The unusual request was swiftly granted...
First, the Council did not become "tangled" in anything at its April 30th meeting. Roughly an hour of that meeting was devoted to a properly docketed discussion of various rules changes. Many of these rules changes could have been discussed earlier in the semester, but at the request of the Administrative Committee the authors of the new rules held their proposals until this final meeting, at which time the Council disposed of them in orderly fashion. Next, the Council spent over an hour considering four reports and two resolutions, the debate on which was almost entirely substantive. The reports covered...
What I did say at Monday's meeting was that the Council should suspend the rules and consider the grant request so as not to appear as a group concerned with rules and not issues. Douglas A. Winthrop...
Nothing would be wrong, of course, with Israel offering its own aid to El Salvador or the contras, even at U.S. request. Washington and Jerusalem were full of rumors last week that the subject would come up when David Kimche, director general of the Israeli foreign ministry and a former deputy chief of the Mossad, traveled to Washington. After meeting with State Department officials, however, Kimche denied that Israel had any intention of selling arms to U.S. clients in the isthmus. He said that discussions had been held on expanding technological aid to the region, like Israel's ongoing...