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...Salvador, the House Foreign Affairs Committee has urged political accomodation, as detailed in 11 pages of human rights demands, and a "dialogue in good faith and without preconditions" with the Cuban-backed rebels. And, to demonstrate its unhappiness, the Committee voted to cut in half Reagan's original request of $136 million in fiscal 1983 funding for E1 Salvador. Similarly, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee approved a bill to eliminate all "covert" aid to insurgents in Nicaragua and to replace it with $30 million this year and $50 million next year in "overt...
...country's allegedly "free" elections. He was in Chicago in 1968 speaking out against police brutality to protesters outside the Democratic National Convention. He was in Prague in 1969 on the first anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia ("If the Red Army was really sent in at the request of the Czech people," he explained, "the anniversary of their arrival would be quite a festive occasion. I decided to go and see for myself...
...legitimate role in protecting national security. "The adversary uses them all the time and a hell of a lot more than we do," says Edward Boland of Massachusetts, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. "I think they're a necessity." Indeed, members last year approved Reagan's request for secret funding to the contras as a way of interdicting Nicaraguan arms shipments to the Salvadoran rebels. But Boland attached an amendment barring the use of any of the funds "for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Nicaragua...
...benefit, there's always a way to rope in a celebrity between engagements. It's even easier when the event calls for the guest performers to do something a little different to parade their versatility. For Mary Tyler Moore, 45, all it took was a request for her to stretch those famous legs and hit the boards in a dance number-calling up talents that kept her in tooth polish long before the Mary Tyler Moore Show. And so, hat cocked and collar up, Moore will be joining a smart blue chorus line of New York...
...other head, there is ample documentary evidence of requests for the bombing being directed to McCloy. One such request came from the head of the U.S. War Refugee Board. He detailed for McCloy the positive results such a bombing would have not only in saying Jewish lives, but in helping the Allied war effort...