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...Executive Order authorizing various Government agencies to take responsibility for the $100 million package. The program will be administered on a day-to-day basis by the CIA and supervised by the State Department. As if to underscore that point, Elliott Abrams, the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, traveled to the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, where he met briefly with President Jose Azcona Hoyo and then with several senior contra leaders...
Nonetheless, much of Western Europe's press and expert opinion appeared to be impressed that the superpower leaders were at last talking seriously about deep slashes in nuclear arms. Even the antinuclear European left generally declined to indulge in Reagan bashing. In the Netherlands, the Inter-Church Peace Council deplored a "historic chance that was missed," but chastised the Soviets for linking reductions in intermediate-range nuclear weapons to restrictions...
...Happy Hacker's favorite use of the Harvard computer facilitities is to send mail. You can send messages to friends at most major U.S. colleges, and even some foreign ones, such as Hebrew University in Jerusalem. All this is done through the wonderful world of BITNET, an inter-university computer link...
...both Linsky and Neustadt's call for a new era of press management by policymakers. Linsky and Neustadt, in defending the concept of improved press management, offered curious suggestions to policymakers: 1) "frame the issues" for the journalist, 2) use the press merely to communicate with other departments (i.e. inter-office memoranda), and 3) consider the press a strategic instrument to implement policies. The spirit of these suggestions struck chords of discontent with Hunt. In fact, they clashed with several values which Hunt later defended: the autonomy of the press, the adversarial (not cooperative) relationship between journalists and policymakers...
This time, however, the Reagan Administration decided that Helms had gone too far. Undercutting U.S. policy while visiting a foreign country is "indefensible," said Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American affairs. After Pinochet announced his intention to remain as President of Chile until 1997, Abrams argued that Helms might be "playing into the hands of the Communists" by supporting "an indefinite extension of military rule rather than a transition to democracy." Abrams said that he had approved Barnes' attendance at the funeral. State Department Spokesman Bernard Kalb pointedly described Barnes as "one of the most experienced...