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While the guerrillas showed their disdain, American visitors expressed non-partisan delight over the election process. U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Thomas Pickering took 41 official U.S. observers, including Senators Pete Wilson of California and John Chafee of Rhode Island and a group of Congressmen, around to watch the balloting. Said Chafee: "Anybody who looks at this and fails to be impressed is just immune to sensitivity." Agreed Angier Biddle Duke, a Democrat who had served as Ambassador to El Salvador in 1952-53: "The U.S. spent chicken feed here, and in return for that investment we have seen...
Americans are still waiting for non-partisan documented evidence that Sandinistas are running guns to Salvadoran insurgents...
Democrats generally call it "the fairness issue." Jesse Jackson describes it as a "reverse Robin Hood process, taking from the poor and giving to the rich." The President dismisses all such talk as "political demagoguery." Last week the non-partisan and widely respected Congressional Budget Office published a report that seemed to concede the argument to the Democrats. Its conclusion: Reaganomics, with its deep personal income tax cuts and reductions in spending on social programs, has been a boon to the nation's wealthy families and has hurt those that were already poor...
...Baha'i religion, founded in Iran in 1844, holds as its basic principle the unity of mankind, McLaughlin said. This commitment, she added, also includes equality of sexes and races, the refusal to fight, the advocacy of non-partisan nuclear disarmament, and the disavowal of all divisive actions...
Paul Dietrich, president of the conservative National Center for Legislative Research, wangled himself an invitation to a private showing and calls the film "anything but non-partisan." Says John Fisher, president of the American Security Council: "Clearly someone associated with the production has a significantly different perspective than we do, because somehow the pirated version hasn't been exposed to people on our side of the issue. This movie says deterrence has failed, and that's a political statement...