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...House debated the Democratic plan, Rep. Charles Stenholm, (D-Tex.) charged that it would have placed control of a $14 million fund to aid children who are victims of the civil war in the hands of the leftist Nicaraguan government, prompting an angry response from House Speaker Jim Wright...
...four years a group calling itself Egypt's Revolution conducted a campaign of assassinations against Israeli and American diplomats in Cairo. Last week authorities announced the indictment of 20 alleged members of the leftist group, which opposes the 1979 Egyptian peace treaty with Israel. One of the alleged leaders was none other than Khaled Abdel Nasser, 38, son of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser. The name of Khaled's group was an obvious reference to the 1952 revolution led by the elder Nasser...
Reagan also issued a fresh call for aid to the contra rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government, and said the Soviet Union had doubled military assistance for the leftist regime in the first two months of this year over 1987 levels...
Chirac's status as a center-right Premier under a leftist head of state, an arrangement known in France as cohabitation, was a controversial first-time experiment. Barre had opposed it as a "trap," and never fails to include the period of Chirac's premiership when he lists France's alleged economic ills. On balance, however, Chirac probably comes out ahead on the issue. Cohabitation has proved popular with most voters. Moreover, Chirac's position allows him to accompany Mitterrand to such highly public occasions as last month's Anglo-French summit meeting in London...
...original target of the FBI was the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), a Washington-based group that protests the continuation of war in Central America and raises money for humanitarian aid. Although the FBI suspected that CISPES was giving illegal military aid to leftist guerillas in El Salvador, no evidence was found. So the FBI decided to expand their investigation...