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...selection committee for the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) is currently considering South Korean dissident Kim Due Jung's request for a fellowship, the Director of the CFIA's fellows program, Benjamin Brown, confirmed yesterday...
Disturbed by Kirkpatrick's presentation, Reagan ordered a "full review" of Central American policy. His first priority was money. Instead of approving the request for $86.3 million in military aid to El Salvador for 1983 (up from $82 million spent in 1982), the last Congress had authorized only $26 million. According to the Administration, the Salvadorans have already spent the $26 million, primarily during the guerrilla offensive...
...Reagan Administration insists the rebels must lay down their arms before any such talks can begin, a stipulation the rebels have refused to accept. There is no chance that the legislation proposed by Hatfield and Leach will pass. Nonetheless, House Speaker Tip O'Neill predicted that any request for an additional $60 million in military aid to El Salvador would be defeated. (By comparison, Congress last year authorized $2.5 billion in total military and economic aid to Israel...
Janis McKnight, a senior, was expelled from Howard after she disregarded a request by Howard President James Cheek that the newspaper not print additional articles about a discrimination charge filed against the university's general counsel...
...Diethrich, and many other surgeons, performing on-camera was nothing new. His operations had been videotaped for doctors and nurses for nearly a decade. The cardiologist agreed to a request from KAET-TV in Tempe, Ariz., to do a televised operation as part of a month-long health series on the public station. The two-hour segment, picked up by some 100 public TV stations in 33 states, had "a twofold purpose," said KAET Spokeswoman Kathy Banfield: "To alleviate the fears of those who face this surgery" and "to encourage others to give up smoking and other bad habits...