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...Dodd-I songas-Batnes-Solarz joint resolution calling for an internationally supervised ceasefire and negotiated settlement in El Salvador, where we believe conflict will never be resolved unless other nations cooperate...
...calls on the El Salvador government to negotiate a settlement with the rebels; an even stronger one would cut off military aid to El Salvador unless negotiations are started. The most comprehensive bill of all was proposed on Friday by Democratic Senators Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts and Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, two of the Administration's leading critics. It would require prior congressional consent for any military aid or covert action in Central America. In practice, this would make covert action all but impossible. Said Tsongas: "We're on the verge of a kind of 1950s intervention policy...
...operation, which also netted six Congressmen. In fact, by week's end sentiment on Capitol Hill was running harder against the bureau than it was against Williams. Many Senators were appalled by the climate of corruption created by the FBI to ensnare public officials. Says Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd: "I'd like to catch the s.o.b. who thought Abscam up. He should be hung by his heels...
Indeed, in Washington the most extreme critics of the Administration's policy are likening the growing U.S. role in El Salvador to the early stages of American involvement in Viet Nam (see ESSAY). Other, less strident critics, such as Democratic Senators Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts, last week helped to introduce a joint congressional resolution urging the U.S. to promote a negotiated settlement between the government and its leftist opponents. Three delegations of congressional Democrats flew to El Salvador over the weekend to take a closer look at local conditions. Even as the Congressmen began...
...time arrested and imprisoned three prominent businessmen who are members of the country's Superior Council of Private Enterprise. The government accused both the left and the right of criticizing official policy, a practice that is now a serious offense in Nicaragua. Last week, while U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd visited the country, the Sandinistas banned three radio news programs for reporting "misinformation and lies" about the Honduran incursion...