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While the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's vote to cut off aid to the contras is a positive step, the resolution it passed, sponsored by Senators Christopher Dodd (D-CT) and Lowell Weicker (R-CT), nonetheless perpetuates a fundamental flaw in the United States' Central American policy. The Dodd-Weicker resolution would eliminate the contra's final $40 million aid installment, allocate money to remove the contras from Honduras, and contribute funds to the Contadora negotiation group. However, Dodd-Weicker would also reinstate $300 million in economic aid--with no human rights guidelines attached--to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras...
...assumed the full caucus would simply "affirm" that decision. But Helms remained uncharacteristically serene. "We don't want to do away with the seniority system, do we?" he slyly asked colleagues. The not-so-subtle message got through, particularly to such out-of-step Republicans as Connecticut's Lowell Weicker, a liberal whose only chance to become a chairman lies with seniority. By a 24-to-17 vote, Republicans opted for Helms -- and the system...
...Harvard effort, spearheaded by attorney Peter L. Malkin '55 and Sen. Lowell M. Weicker (R-Conn.), got around the restriction by securing Harvard the man, not Harvard the college, the 33rd slot in the Great Americanstamp series. As such, the teaching elder whobequeathed his library and 800 English pounds tothe first American college will join the likes ofthe late Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black,attorney William Jennings Bryan, poet T.S. Eliot'04, jazz great Duke Ellington, and writer JackLondon on the top right corner of America'senvelopes...
Many members of Congress are strong defenders of the agency and are furious with the way it is being attacked. "Heatherly's actions were just unconscionable," says Representative Parren Mitchell, a Maryland Democrat who is chairman of the House Small Business Committee. Lowell Weicker, a Connecticut Republican and the head of a similar committee in the Senate, has called for a hearing with the acting SBA chief. But Heatherly remains undaunted. Says he facetiously: "If that was controversial, I can't wait for the reaction to some other things I have planned down the road...
Bush to Michigan: DROP DEAD, read the headline over the lead editorial in the Detroit News. Scoffed Connecticut's Republican Senator Lowell Weicker: "This sounded more like the concerns of a Congressman from Houston than the Vice President...