Word: recessions
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Matters were not helped when Lebanon became a focal point of partisan politics. Sensing an advantageous election issue, congressional Democrats had intended to bring a resolution demanding Marine withdrawal from Lebanon before the House when Congressmen returned from an eleven-day recess on Feb. 21. Even some Republicans were sympathetic. In a provocative radio broadcast, only days before his sudden announcement of the Marine "redeployment" and the new rules for U.S. naval and aerial engagement in Lebanon, Reagan urged that the U.S. not "cut and run" from its positions. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the President took...
...Washington, the aid vs. human rights debate over El Salvador will likely increase in stridency this week, as Congressmen return from recess to Capitol Hill. Anticipating the controversy, the Administration last week released a Salvadoran human rights assessment asserting, as the Administration has done in the past, that "important progress has been made." Among other things, the report claims a drop in the rate of violent Salvadoran civilian deaths during the latter half of 1983, to 104 monthly, but offers a blunt admission that there has been a "significant increase" in casualties attributable to death squads. The Administration...
...Committee voted to recess public discussion until Thursday, but even so the hearing may be no more than an exercise because four committee members have indicated opposition to a renewal of Lannon's contract...
...limited meal plan, offering lunch and continental breakfast, will be available to Harvard students for the first time this spring recess...
...million in military aid, well above the $64.8 million Congress approved last year, there will be stiff opposition when the Senate and House of Representatives reconvene on Jan. 23. Congressional critics of U.S. policy in El Salvador were angered when the President used a pocket veto during the holiday recess to block a bill extending the requirement that the U.S. certify El Salvador's progress in human rights and political reform before granting further aid. Last week 33 House Democrats filed suit in federal court charging that the President had acted unconstitutionally. The certification law will undoubtedly be resubmitted...