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Three years ago, Senator Christopher Dodd delivered a nationally televised speech on behalf of the Democratic Party opposing proposed aid to the government of El Salvador. "If Central America were not racked with poverty . . . hunger . . . injustice," argued Dodd, "there would be no revolution." That is the premise. And the conclusion? "Unless those oppressive conditions change" -- Can they? Can the U.S. will them to? -- "the region will continue to seethe with revolution." The choice? Either "to move with the tide of history" or "stand against...
...treaty is opposed by a coalition of northeastern liberal Democrats, including Senators Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and John Kerry of Massachusetts, and Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina. The Democrats, many with large Irish-American constituencies, maintain that the I.R.A. is waging a legitimate struggle for political freedom. Helms cares little for the I.R.A., but worries that the new treaty would set a precedent, allowing Communist governments to demand the extradition of anti- communist guerrillas...
...tried, with little success, to downplay the aggression. Jim Sasser, the Tennessean who spearheaded the Democratic challenge, charged the White House with trying "to magnify the whole incident. The Administration went to great lengths to get news of this so- called invasion out as broadly as possible." Christopher Dodd of Connecticut added, "The incident is obviously being used very effectively for political purposes here...
...October 21 panel discussion will feature Sen. Gordon Humphries (R-N.H.), Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), and Kurt Lohbeck, a freelance film-maker for CBS News who will show footage of conditions in the war-torn country...
...help alleviate this situation Edelman urged enactment of the Children's Survival Bill, which was introduced in the Senate last week by Connecticut Democrat Christopher Dodd and is expected to be introduced in the House this week or next. The bill would attack such problems as nutritional deficiencies in poor children and the crippling cycle of teenage pregnancy. "Those who would rather moralize than help should remember that poor children did not cause or choose their poverty," said Edelman. "These facts require urgent community and national responses...