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Aid donors have begun considering military protection to help deliver food. Agencies argue that helicopter gunships, armored cars and communications equipment are needed to run rebel blockades. So far, however, no Western nation has agreed to provide weapons or materiel. The U.S. position is complicated by a split between the...
They are officially known as reservations, but lawmakers call them "killer amendments." Attached to a treaty by the Senate, they require the President to renegotiate certain provisions. Although Reagan is expected to have little trouble getting the two-thirds majority needed to ratify the INF accord, such likely opponents of...
The President is going to need all the help he can get from top Republican Senators. "It is only when the senior leadership and the White House work in tandem that people will be able to not vote for something Wallop or Helms introduces," says a veteran Capitol Hill staffer...
Former CIA Director Richard Helms, barred from associating with powerful Communists for his entire career, gripped the Gorbachev hand and said, "I never expected to meet a General Secretary of the Communist Party." Gorbachev broke into a grin, and for that second, perhaps, was as amazed as Helms.
Maybe. But nothing on that evening was certain except the world was changing and that small assembly of Soviets and Americans was witness to a rare act within the larger drama. As he went out into the night, Helms cast a glance at Lincoln with his chin in his hand...