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...DECISION LAST WEEK by the House Foreign Affairs Committee granting the Reagan Administration's request for $60 million in necessary aid to El Salvador is yet another step in the wrong direction for U.S. policy in Central America. Symbolically the assistance constitutes a show of support for the recently elected Constituted Assembly headed by Roberto d'Aubuisson, the extreme right-wing leader who former U.S. ambassador Robert White calls a "pathological killer." Concretely, the guns and funds mean the prolongation of a bloody civil war that continues to ravage El Salvador...
...every last Communist in this country." Since the election in March, he has softened his tone, hoping to garner support from Washington With a $60 million U.S. arms package under his arm, d'Aubuisson will probably try to make good on his promise Congress. In backing the Administration's request, he given legitimacy to a man who must be considered guilty until proven innocent...
...pleased the Faculty Council refused the Gay Students Association's ill-considered request that it investigate and reprimand Mr. Edward Pattullo for his published views on homosexuality. It was a disservice to the cause of free speech at this great institution for the GSA to claim that Mr. Pattullo's official role as directory of the Center for Behavioral Sciences constituted a constraint, de jure, on his freedom of speech. The GSA has only one legitimate recourse against Mr. Pattullo's views on homosexuality--to debate them, but not to prevent them. I do not myself share Mr. Pattullo...
...Reagan was perplexed by the Argentine's determination to put troops on the Falklands. Reagan found Galtieri's argument about lingering colonialism unconvincing. Nor could the President accept the British obsession with self-determination for the 1,800 residents of the islands. Reagan was tutored, at his request, on the deeper motivations and the historic perspectives of the two nations...
...Council turned down a formal request from the Gay Students Association (GSA) that it criticize Edward I. Pattullo, director of the Center for Behavioral Sciences. "Mr. Pattullo's right of free speech is paramount in this matter," the council said in a prepared statement...