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Last week's flare-up occurred during hearings by the House Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations. Although the subject was an Administration request for $259 million in additional military aid to El Salvador over the next 18 months, Wisconsin Democrat David Obey could not resist lecturing Shultz about Lebanon. Obey charged that State Department briefings for Congressmen on Lebanon had been "the least informative, the least substantive and the most pitiful I've ever witnessed." Now, Obey went on, "we appear to be in a position where we are going to run into another foreign policy failure...
...Congress does not approve the requested aid, the White House has suggested that Reagan might use his Executive authority to draw from emergency military funds. The Administration contends that the rebels will increase their attacks in an effort to disrupt the elections and that the Salvadoran army is running short on ammunition, M-16 rifles, trucks and helicopter spare parts. Maryland Democrat Clarence Long, chairman of the subcommittee, warned Shultz: "The Administration would make a great mistake if it chose to bypass Congress." Replied the Secretary: "Pass our supplemental [aid request] right away. There...
...Administration fared no better last week in a clumsy last-ditch effort to increase U.S. aid to the contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. Alaska Republican Ted Stevens agreed to attach a request for $21 million for the rebels to a bill being considered by the Senate Appropriations Committee to provide funds that would help poor people pay their fuel bills. The backfiring tactic was devised by top White House Aides James Baker and Richard Darman. Even some Republicans on the Republican-controlled committee were outraged by the stratagem, which would have forced Senators opposed to funding the Nicaraguan contras to vote...
Last month, Higgins wrote to Dukakis with a request that the governor recognize the anniversary of the Office of the Arts this year...
Parents also have the option to request one of the several "magnet schools," which draw children from all over the city. The Graham-Parks School offers multi-grade open classrooms with an emphasis on parent involvement in forming school policy. "The Open School" at mid-Cambridge's Martin Luther King School stresses "individualized academic creativity," according to a school department brochure...