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...Because of its efforts to expose human rightsviolations, and to point out that theresponsibility for them lies with the right wingdeath squads, the military, and the Salvadorangovernment, the CDH has constantly been a victimof the oppressive apparatus its work exposes,"Katz said...
Under the law, some members of a family may be eligible for legalization, but others may be deported. Since the law has implications for the entire family, Garcia said the schools are a qualified apparatus for handling problems that arise...
...light and the official who presided over the White House staff while the ill-conceived policy was unfolding. Neither Attorney General Edwin Meese nor former Chief of Staff Don Regan did much to shake the devastating portrait that has emerged from the hearings of a secret foreign- policy apparatus run amuck and key officials more concerned with pulling together a convincing alibi than getting to the bottom of the tangled tale...
...Iranian arms deals and covert contra supply operations, dubious enough on their own, were part of a larger, even more insidious pattern: the establishment of a runaway foreign policy that relied on lies and deceptions to function outside the rule of law. Could the buck for such an apparatus really have stopped with John Poindexter...
Given what is now known, the West cannot afford to let down its guard. The Soviet armies and the Kremlin's worldwide apparatus of subversion are not about to melt away. But if Gorbachev can show that he is serious about changing the ground upon which the superpower competition will henceforth be waged, the West should be pleased: the new playing field is one on which the Soviets are still amateurs. For if the rivalry evolves from one based on military assertion into one dominated by the force of ideas, the appeal of values and the potency of economic systems...