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...shocked to read that women in China who are up to nine months pregnant can be forced to undergo abortions. That is outright murder...
Though committee actions are not strictly binding, they have a political force that cannot readily be ignored. If the Administration rejects the committee's demands on the transfer of funds, it risks outright rejection of other requests for military aid to El Salvador that must go through the normal legislative process...
...banking lobby, to attach an amendment to the Social Security bill that would delay by six months a requirement that banks withhold taxes on dividends and interest. This proposal, advanced by Democratic Senator John Melcher of Montana, was a modified version of an effort to repeal the withholding requirement outright. The week before, Wisconsin's Republican Senator Robert W. Kasten tacked the repeal proviso on to the Senate's $5.1 billion jobs bill and got trounced...
...from a moral perspective, may have shunted political concerns too far aside to be practicable. with drawing all aid from the Salvadoran government--i.e. acting on the human rights ultimatum--would likely lead to the collapse of the present government. Then either the extreme Left would take over or outright anarchy would ensure: neither scenario is in the interests of the Salvadorans, or the United States...
...coincidence, perhaps, that the most prominent Socialists seemed to be the least popular. Among government ministers, who often by custom hold jobs as mayors or councilmen in their own towns, eight won reelection, but five were defeated outright in the first round. Although the losers do not automatically forfeit their ministerial posts, they may be the first victims in a government reshuffle. Seven more faced embarrassing runoffs (held whenever the first round produces no clear-cut winner). Among them: Interior Minister Gaston Defferre, who has ruled Marseille as a personal fiefdom for 30 years; Finance Minister Jacques Delors...