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...Congress. Last week, in an article in the Washington Post, Claiborne Pell, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, denounced Pakistan for "breaking its commitments and flouting U.S. laws." Representative Dante Fascell of Florida, who heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has asked the Administration to suspend military portions of the aid package until Pakistan shows that it is not involved in illicit attempts to obtain nuclear materials. And an appropriations subcommittee has already voted to suspend a small portion of the aid. Many analysts believe congressional action will end there, since awareness among the lawmakers of the larger geopolitical...
Arms had been supplied to Iran--with Reagan'sbelated assent--in hopes ofbettering relations and obtaining that country'shelp in gaining the release of American hostagesheld in Lebanon; profits were made on the sale byprivate citizens recruited by North; without thepresident's knowledge a portion of those profitswent to buy weapons for the rebels fightingNicaragua's communist government...
...there is another story to those telegrams, one that has been mentioned only in passing. A signifigant portion of the pro-Ollie messages have contained racial slurs. Instead of reading simply "Go Ollie! Stop." a number have read, "Go Ollie! Show that kike, Jap, or Nigger." Underneath the public support of North are signs of the endemic racism that unfortunately is all too American...
...Israel's chief benefactor, Washington has become an increasingly uncomfortable hostage of the Lavi affair. While the U.S. Government gives Israel $1.8 billion a year in military assistance -- far more than to any other country -- the Lavi claims an ever growing portion of that aid. Washington has so far provided most of the $1.8 billion that Israelis have spent to develop the Lavi and build two prototypes since 1979. But that is just the beginning: development costs that were estimated at $800 million when the project began could reach at least $2.75 billion by the time the first...
...volume novel by Marcel Pagnol (which was itself a reworking of material the author used in a commercially failed film), Berri pursued the rights to a book he loved for six years before Pagnol's widow relented to him. Determined . to make a separate film of each portion of the novel simultaneously and equally committed to show the passing of seasons and years and their effects on his characters, he ended with the most expensive ($17 million) project in French film history...