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...state that I added $100 million to the defense budget last year by winning approval for a new minesweeper to be built in Wisconsin. I did not put the money in the budget-it was requested by the President and the Pentagon. In fact they asked for four mine-countermeasures ships at a cost of $371.6 million. The Senate approved the request, but the House turned it down. Later, the Conference Committee on the Defense Appropriations Bill, a committee on which I sat, approved one of the four requested vessels...
...change was one of emphasis, not of substance. But it could prove crucial in winning congressional support for the Administration's request for $110 million in U.S. military aid to El Salvador in addition to the $26 million that has been appropriated so far this year. Various Senate and House subcommittees will vote on parts of the aid proposal this week. Rejection of the measure would be a major blow to U.S. policy in El Salvador. According to the Administration's own gloomy forecast, the Salvadoran government is in danger of losing its war against some...
...council referred the request to the city health and hospital committee...
...poorly, and is not improving. One purpose of the extra U.S. funds would be to provide better training for the government forces. Not at all incidentally, the mere announcement of added aid might strengthen their willingness to fight. Indeed, if there is an element of crisis in the aid request, it is that the Salvadoran army could be totally demoralized if Congress withholds the extra funds...
...Archbishop Szoka first clashed last year when she ran unsuccessfully in a Democratic congressional primary. The Pope clearly indicated that priests and nuns should not hold public office, and those who do so should, according to current canon law, first get permission from their bishop. Mansour did not request permission, and says she did not know this was necessary. During the primary she tartly dismissed canon law as an "old set of rules that are invoked when somebody wants to invoke them, and ignored when someone wants to ignore them...