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...dispatched Kirkpatrick to the region on a fact-finding tour. She returned with a gloomy assessment of the entire Central American situation. Her findings prompted the Administration to ask for an additional $110 million in military aid to El Salvador in fiscal 1983, on top of Reagan's original request for $61.3 million. Another point on which Clark and Kirkpatrick agreed, with the support of CIA Director William Casey, was that Thomas Enders, then in charge of Latin American policy at the State Department, should be replaced. They felt that Enders was moving too slowly and cautiously. In May, Clark...
...STARTED OUT as a simple request for a simple solution to a simple problem. And it came from the one man at the University who should be able to sidestep the bureaucratic web that usually ensnares such pleas and transforms them into complicated matters...
...missives. Following an outcry from the press, that order was modified within 24 hours. Meanwhile, two Italian citizens have reportedly offered themselves as hostages in exchange for the captured girl. Emanuela's family has hired a lawyer to deal directly with her captors, and at the abductors' request, the Vatican's Secretary of State, Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, sits by a special telephone, awaiting further messages...
...last year was $542,000. The other terrors include the temptations of easy but sleazy money. "Some people offer as much as a million yen ($4,200) for an hour-long lecture. You can even get away with a talk about what you did yesterday. I refuse any such request. To me it is corruption...
Local hip-hoppers the Jonzun Crew follow Bambaataa's lead with the first album put out by the independent company Tommy Boy, which has fostered electro-funk in Bambaataa and reggae-influenced Pressure Drop ("Rock the House") and Latin Special Request ("Salsa Smurph" believe...