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President Reagan delivered a stirring address on the menace in Central America. Unfortunately, the message did not penetrate congressional partisanship. In his rebuttal, Senator Christopher Dodd alluded to Reagan's not "going with the tide of history." The Senator prefers to forget Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the East bloc countries and the surrogate Communist nations in our own hemisphere...
...They don't want to give up in E1 Salvador. "It would be a tragedy if we cut and run in E1 Salvador," declared Senator Joseph Biden (D-Del.); "No one on this side of the aisle has ever advocated a total abandonment of E1 Salvador," confirmed Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn...
...introduced a bill in the assembly that would require banks in most cases to clear checks within five days. Last week the New York State legislature began consideration of a bill that would empower a state panel to set limits on check-clearing times. In Congress, Democratic Senators Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and William Proxmire of Wisconsin have proposed a new law that would require banks to publish their check-clearing schedules. Many consumers are unaware of their banks' policies on check clearing. Publishing them would allow customers to shop around, and competition might force banks to reduce their...
...Dodd's official Democratic response was more emotionally charged than Reagan's carefully modulated address. Calling the President's policies "a formula for failure," Dodd accused him of ignoring the fundamental factors that led to instability in the region. "If Central America were not racked with poverty, there would be no revolution," Dodd argued. He painted a bleak picture of the Salvadoran government, charging that its land-reform program had long been "abandoned" and that its repressive police tactics still terrorized the populace. "I have been to that country, and I know about the morticians who travel the streets each...
...Dodd's reaction was much sharper than that of many of his Democratic colleagues. Although critical of portions of Reagan's speech, key Democrats admit to seeing very real dangers in reducing Reagan's requested military assistance to El Salvador. House Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas, for instance, is among those who feel strongly that the U.S. must continue to support its Central American allies. Like their G.O.P. counterparts?and most of the public?Democrats are generally worried and confused about how to handle a problem they all wish would disappear...