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Critics also charge that Baker's pragmatism betrays a lack of deep ideological commitment. Though his voting record is generally conservative, he is not totally trusted by his party's right wing because he supported the Panama Canal treaties and civil rights legislation, and has at tempted to find a middle ground on controversial social issues like abortion...
...Minister David Ben-Gurion dispatched his army into the Sinai in December as part of an effort to achieve leverage for a reconciliation Adhering to a United Nations security council resolution. Ben-Gurion withdrew from the Sinai in search of peace despite his country's inroads toward the Suez Canal. Then and only then did Egypt sign a cease-fire...
...favor of a British draft resolution demanding Argentine withdrawal from the Falklands. Britain froze Argentine assets in the country, worth some $1.5 billion, and Argentina re sponded by freezing British assets, estimated at $5.8 billion. The House of Commons held its first weekend emergency session since the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. Irate Tory and Labor members were virtually unanimous in directing the Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to recover the islands by force if intensive diplomatic efforts should fail. In a reference to Mrs. Thatcher, Ulster M.P. Enoch Powell said: "In the next week...
...other hand, changing the status of veterans' organizations would be very difficult politically. They have well learned how to make themselves heard. In recent years they have lobbied on everything from the Panama Canal treaties to Saturday mail delivery. Now that they are aware of the threat to their capacity to speak out, they are sure to fight in court-and in Congress. There, they could lobby for legislation to solidify the lobbying right they thought they already...
...security officials and advisers. Although these experts did not wholeheartedly endorse the Administration view that the Salvadoran guerrillas are actually controlled by Cuba and Nicaragua, they agreed that external forces were playing an important role in the Salvadoran struggle. Said Sol Linowitz, one of the negotiators of the Panama Canal Treaty: "We found it sobering and reason for concern. We found what we were shown to be credible and quite persuasive." Added Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski: "Disturbing." William Rogers, Richard Nixon's first Secretary of State, called the case "overwhelming" and added that...