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While the eventual outcome on the amount of money remained in doubt, there were signs that the Administration would try to accommodate Congress on the conditions the legislature wishes to attach to the funds. For the first time, some State Department officials were conceding privately that they can live with committee demands for negotiations in El Salvador, since they doubt that such talks actually would produce power sharing between the warring factions...
...votes to kill Kasten's rider; Kasten failed by only one vote to end Dole's filibuster. The impasse was broken when Kasten succumbed to the heat from Senate Republican leaders and agreed to withdraw his rider, in return for a promise that he could attach it to trade legislation due to come up for action next month. The Senate then quickly passed the jobs bill; the $5.1 billion appropriation must now be reconciled with the $4.9 billion House version...
...editors are indulging in wishful thinking if they believe the political editorials on "Central America, the arms control debate, the Reagan budget, and national elections" are anything more than journalistic exercise prepping the author for a future at the Times or the Post. They are welcome, but don't attach such import to them...
...bomb that explodes in the house of an Israeli labor attaché near Bonn draws the attention not only of West German authorities but also of intelligence agents from Tel Aviv, led by a man named Kurtz (a.k.a. Schulmann, Raphael, Spielberg). He knows who is responsible for the blast: a shadowy Palestinian called Khalil who has terrorized Western Europe with apparent impunity. Kurtz pays his hidden adversary a supreme compliment: "There's a brain at work." Kurtz has also located Khalil's younger brother and collaborator, currently living in Munich, and has a team of agents in place...
...Attaché Campione quickly agreed. Over the Christmas holiday he developed a plan to sneak Lombino out of the U.S. and into Italy so that Lombino could talk with Restelli. Since Lombino was still a fugitive with no passport, the Italian official had to concoct a new identity for him. With the Fat Man's aid, Lombino acquired the Social Security number of an unwitting high school driver's education instructor from Brooklyn, while a cooperative priest in Manhattan provided him with false baptism records...