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...After Shultz and lawmakers tangle, the prospects...
...point of contention was familiar: U.S. military and economic aid to Central America. So were the adversaries: Secretary of State George Shultz and members of Congress. And so were the results: election-year posturing and exploding tempers. Only this time the shouting on Capitol Hill was not merely for effect. The Administration's urgent requests for emergency military aid to the government of El Salvador and for the contra rebels fighting Nicaragua's Sandinista regime were clearly in peril...
Last week's flare-up occurred during hearings by the House Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations. Although the subject was an Administration request for $259 million in additional military aid to El Salvador over the next 18 months, Wisconsin Democrat David Obey could not resist lecturing Shultz about Lebanon. Obey charged that State Department briefings for Congressmen on Lebanon had been "the least informative, the least substantive and the most pitiful I've ever witnessed." Now, Obey went on, "we appear to be in a position where we are going to run into another foreign policy failure...
...Washington, Reagan Administration officials claimed to be turning their attention back to the broader issue of a comprehensive peace settlement in the Middle East, a course of action that conveniently justified a course of inaction in Lebanon. On Capitol Hill, Secretary of State George Shultz nonetheless assured a Senate committee that once political reconciliation was under way in the shattered country, "we will be prepared to provide appropriate advice and support for the Lebanese armed forces...
...Weinberger and Shultz fall, Kissinger rises like the Phoenix. The Central America Commission leadership is only one manifestation of the rescusitation of his reputation; Kissinger reportedly sees Shultz and Reagan regularly. It is Kissinger, the scoundrel, who may carry on the Nixon banner, not Shultz or Weinberger, two men of integrity. Sy Hersh's darts were sharp indeed, but not sharp enough. They don't matter anymore The American people value competence, and it looks like Cap and George don't measure...