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...troops loyal to Marcos used the army against the Philippine reform movement forces led by Enrile and Ramos. On Sunday evening, Shultz and Under Secretary of State Armacost met at the State Department with Blas Ople, Marcos' Minister of Labor, who had come to Washington to plead the Philippine President's case. According to Ople, the American diplomats gave him a blunt message: Marcos had lost control of his army, the troops under General Ver were ineffectual, and if Marcos did not step down, the country could be heading for civil war. A similar statement was sent...
...some ways the growth of interest groups is healthy. Capitol Hill at times seems like a huge First Amendment jamboree, where Americans of all persuasions clamor to be heard. Movie stars plead on behalf of disease prevention, Catholic clerics inveigh against abortion, farmers in overalls ask for extended credit, Wall Street financiers extol the virtues of lower capital-gains taxes. No single group dominates. When the steel, auto and rubber industries saw the Reagan Administration as an opening to weaken the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, the "Green Lobby," a coalition of environmental groups, was able to stop them...
...seeking to overthrow the Marxist- Leninist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Administration officials also confirmed in congressional testimony that the CIA will funnel some $15 million in covert aid to rebels fighting the Cuban- and Soviet-backed government of Angola. This week the President will go on national television to plead for public support for his massive defense buildup, which is threatened by the deficit cutters on Capitol Hill. Reagan's tribute to the invasion of Grenada --the one example of the President's use of military force in support of his stand-tall rhetoric--was intended as a symbolic reminder...
...lazy, the Democratic Speaker exploded. He charged that Reagan's economic notions are a "bunch of baloney" that might "go over big at the country club" but not with the rest of the nation. As the two venerable Irishmen squared off, G.O.P. Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming had to plead with them "to stop beating up on each other. It makes it difficult for the rest of us to get any work done...
...guerrilla army, he was formally received by Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and, finally, President Reagan. With the help of a high-powered public relations firm, he appeared on Public Television's MacNeil/ Lehrer NewsHour and ABC's Nightline and Good Morning America to plead his cause against Angola's Marxist regime and their Cuban and Soviet sponsors. At a national Conservative convention in Washington, he received a cheering, whistling ovation, and former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick urged the U.S. to provide him with "real helicopters, real ground-to-air missiles, real weapons...