Word: request
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...both. Just as regularly, the Administration has insisted that the contra war, in which some 5,000 Nicaraguans died last year, provides Washington with essential leverage in its efforts to moderate the Sandinistas' excesses. Last week the policy to and fro resumed as Congress began considering a White House request for $14 million to fund the contras...
...Communist Party. Two weeks earlier, the Kremlin had announced that a conference of Warsaw Pact leaders, set for mid-January, had been postponed. In Bonn, West German Socialist Leader Willy Brandt announced that a visit to the Soviet capital in mid-February had also been postponed at Moscow's request. So great was the climate of uncertainty in Moscow that foreign diplomats and journalists became nervous every time the radio broadcast somber symphonic music, frequently the first indication of a top leader's death. There were other signs and portents as well for Kremlin watchers: at week...
...pressure to hold down spending, the Administration this week is proposing to freeze the total amount of aid for next year. But its fiscal 1986 budget includes hefty rises in military assistance to Egypt and Israel; added to that will be an undetermined amount to meet Israel's unresolved request for more economic aid. To accommodate these increases, at least $1 billion will have to be cut from economic aid to other countries...
Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin came to Washington last week to lobby for the military-aid portion of Israel's request (see WORLD). At a midweek meeting in the White House, he said that Israel is "taking real risks" by cutting its own defense spending to $2.6 billion, a twelve-year low. Reagan promised Rabin an additional $400 million in military assistance next year --about half of what the Israelis asked for. But Administration officials, led by Secretary of State George Shultz, want to hold off deciding on economic-assistance levels until Prime Minister Peres proves he is serious about...
...ports to all nuclear-armed or nuclear-powered ships. Such a stand would effectively ban all U.S warships from New Zealand ports, since Washington declines to indicate which of its ships carry nuclear weapons. The matter came to a head last week when Lange refused a routine U.S. request to allow an American naval vessel to call on New Zealand during naval exercises in March. The Prime Minister thus set the stage for a prolonged and potentially bitter battle with Washington over the future of the 1951 ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.) security pact...