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Settlement supporters also invoke the American traditions of compromise and consensus, and argue that negotiation could produce a tolerant, pluralistic government. Democratic Congressman Michael Barnes of Maryland, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs, insists: "We can go to the table knowing what we will not concede-ultimate power. To say the only outcome is a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship is absurd." Adds Senator Gary Hart, Democrat from Colorado: "I'm not wildly optimistic about negotiations working, but at least we would be honest brokers rather than military promoters...
...Yankee on whom the fates smiled. Born to wealth, educated at Yale and Harvard, he hurtled up through the State Department ranks until, when selected as envoy to Canada at age 43, he was the youngest U.S. ambassador anywhere. Now 50, Enders is Assis tant man of State for Inter-American Affairs and the point man for U.S. pol icy in the Caribbean and Latin America. He is urbane but also aloof, even cold, and almost cynically pragmatic. His blend of tact and two-fistedness resembles the style of his former mentor, Henry Kissinger...
...killing the archbishop and five former national guardsmen have been charged with killing the missionaries. The bishops have contended for two years that the U.S. must not become too closely identified with the Salvadoran government. Archbishop James A. Hickey of Washington last year told the House Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs: "Our position is to oppose military aid and intervention from all outside powers." The bishops favored diplomatic pressure to "stop the flow of arms from Cuba through Nicaragua to El Salvador," he said, "but we earnestly and vigorously oppose the sending of U.S. military assistance to El Salvador...
Participating in the coalition are the Black Law Students Association, the Asian-American Law Students Association, L' Allianza--representing Chicano students--the Native American Law Students Association, and La Sociedade Inter-American--representing Caribbean and Latino law students...
Furthermore, as the majority so eloquently states, the establishment of a committee does not a true commitment entail-quite the opposite, it seems. An inter-disciplinary committee of women's studies would only inhibit the reform of prejudices that exist in extant departments. Perhaps the only positives aspect of a new department would be the introduction of courses and seminars dedicated to re-examining areas traditionally biased against women, and in developing a greater understanding of women's role and contribution in academics. This is notably a role not adopted by the committee advocated by the majority-a body which...