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...Thursday, two Republicans, Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon and Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa, introduced a bill to cut off all military aid and withdraw U.S. advisers unless the Salvadoran government launched "good faith" negotiations with the guerrillas. The 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...
Congress passed a law this summer which would withdraw federal aid from students who do not verify their draft-registration to financial aid officers at their school...
...puts it, "a pillar of probity," a respected champion of individual rights, indifferent to rank and impervious to reputation. As Attorney General, in 1977 he sent to prison the government's nominee for chairman of the Bank of Israel and in 1977 forced the Minister of Finance to withdraw a plan to give amnesty to tax evaders. In April 1977 he prosecuted Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's wife Leah for holding U.S. bank accounts, forcing Rabin's departure from office. And as Begin's legal adviser, Barak was, wrote Jimmy Carter in his memoirs, "a real...
During the meeting Rosovsky also raised the consequences of a proposal before Congress that would seek to withdraw all federal funds from schools that approve compensation for losses suffered by non-registrants...
Israel is insisting that it will not withdraw its 30,000 troops until Lebanon has concluded a formal agreement to bring about normal relations and set up security arrangements between the two countries. The U.S. agrees with Lebanese President Amin Gemayel that such a move could offend Muslim factions in the war-torn country and in the Arab states whose support Lebanon badly needs, notably Syria and Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, the U.S. has opposed Israel's request for at least three early-warning stations in southern Lebanon, to be manned by some 750 Israeli troops. Special Envoy Philip Habib...