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...cover "moving expenses," but that notation was blacked out and changed to "consulting fees." The recipients: Meese, Deputy White House Chief of Staff Michael Deaver and Administration Personnel Director E. Pendleton James, who got $10,000 each; Interior Secretary William Clark, who got $9,942; and Helene von Damm, Ambassador to Austria, who received...
...summiteering began in earnest upon Reagan's return to London from Wednesday's Normandy ceremonies. Thursday morning, the President held a series of 35-minute bilateral meetings at Winfield House, the U.S. Ambassador's residence, with his other major summit partners. The meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone included a general discussion of cooperation in the event of a Persian Gulf oil crisis. According to U.S. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, the two leaders agreed that "some type of sharing, some type of contingency planning" should ensue. After the meet Regan declared that U.S. interest rates were...
Even so, the Saudis made it clear that they had fired their missiles more in sorrow than in anger. Said Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S.: "Our sovereignty was violated and we reacted, as we said we would all along, in a defensive manner. We think it is a pity we had to be dragged into this conflict...
...moving cautiously. However, he did order an eleven-member military commission to 'Open an inquiry into the 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. Meanwhile, Roberto d'Aubuisson, Duarte's rightist rival in last month's elections, who was once accused by former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Robert White of plotting Romero's murder, received a visa to visit the U.S. After denying D'Aubuisson permission to enter the country during the past year, the State Department decided that the gesture might persuade the Salvadoran to cooperate with Duarte...
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Thomas J. Watson at the University of Vermont in Burlington: "Are you satisfied that no progress has been made on nuclear treaties in three years? Are you satisfied that Soviet-American relations are at an alltime low? I talked to a Russian last week whom I knew quite well in Moscow. He was over here on a visit. He said, 'You know, Tom, we always looked at you as competitors; we sometimes looked at you as adversaries; now you have forced us to look at you as enemies.' The Soviets will...