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...Congress does not approve the requested aid, the White House has suggested that Reagan might use his Executive authority to draw from emergency military funds. The Administration contends that the rebels will increase their attacks in an effort to disrupt the elections and that the Salvadoran army is running short on ammunition, M-16 rifles, trucks and helicopter spare parts. Maryland Democrat Clarence Long, chairman of the subcommittee, warned Shultz: "The Administration would make a great mistake if it chose to bypass Congress." Replied the Secretary: "Pass our supplemental [aid request] right away. There...
Jackson's defenders noted that he has been a target of harassment throughout the campaign. A group called Jews Against Jackson, an offshoot of the radical Jewish Defense League that has been disavowed by leaders of most Jewish organizations, pledged publicly to disrupt his candidacy. Two of its members were arrested for interrupting his announcement speech on Nov. 3 in Washington, D.C. A window in Jackson's New Hampshire campaign headquarters in Manchester was smashed, and his campaign offices in Garden Grove, Calif., were fire bombed...
...take Saddam Hussein's latest threat seriously: if Iran achieves a breakthrough on the ground, they believe, Iraq may feel compelled to attack Kharg. Saddam Hussein probably could not destroy the facility, since it is well protected, but he could bomb the tankers at the loading docks and disrupt Iran's oil exports. In October Iraq received from France five sophisticated Super Etendard fighter-bombers, which can be equipped with lethal Exocet missiles...
...anti-Semitic," he said. "I am not inclined to ... be insulting. The charges have intensified Jewish antagonism toward Jackson, already fierce because of his manifest sympathy for the Palestine Liberation Organization. Jackson, for his part, accuses an organization calling itself Jews Against Jackson of trying to disrupt his campaign...
...single out those two, when hundreds of others were involved, they ask? The answer is simple: Because the Spartacists announced they would disrupt and they did disrupt. They singled themselves out. A police-man breaking up a riot may not be able to arrest all the rioters, but if someone runs up to the policeman with signs proclaiming that he or she will riot, does the policeman say, wait a minute, I have others to arrest? Joseph Kare