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Some Reagan Administration officials predict that the contra program will not be irremediably damaged by the current scandal. They observe that there is no movement afoot at present to halt payment of the remaining $40 million in U.S. aid. "I think when this is all over, Congress will still be willing to back the program," Elliott Abrams said earlier this month. "We have a huge national interest in promoting democracy there." Oklahoma Republican Mickey Edwards pressed the point further in a Washington Post op-ed piece. The Congressman exhorted his legislative brethren to remember that they had approved contra...
Bennett's repeated call for a halt to drug useon campus "is a major step he's taken to makepublic what some people have thought privately forsome time," Walters said...
Hong Kong, which earlier this year banned imports of South Africa's gold Krugerrand coins, extended the sanctions to iron and steel. Imports of South African coal and diamonds, however, will still be allowed. Hong Kong also asked firms in the British crown colony to halt voluntarily new investments and loans to South Africa. Said Piers Jacobs, financial secretary of Hong Kong: "The measures would bring Hong Kong in line with those governments that are our principal trading partners...
...fact attended two full briefings on the topic, and he is known to have protested the arms sales. On Saturday, Nov. 15, Shultz attended a meeting with Reagan and the President's other advisers at Camp David, and he urged Reagan to make a public statement calling a halt to the arms sales. The President at that point would...
Having failed to persuade his boss in person, Shultz on Sunday turned to television. On the CBS program Face the Nation, the Secretary publicly advocated a halt to arms sales, but when asked if he had been authorized to speak for the Administration, he replied bluntly, "No." Asked if he had discussed resigning, Shultz responded with calculated ambiguity, "I serve at (the President's) pleasure, and anything that I have to say on that subject I just say to him." On Monday he increased the pressure, telling reporters after a speech in Chicago that even appearing to trade arms...