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...ironic that just as hopes for a settlement are rising slightly, support for the Administration's Middle East policies is eroding. Members of Congress began returning to Washington last week from the holiday recess, and their ears were ringing with constituents' complaints about the Marine presence in Beirut. Republican Charles Percy of Illinois, who heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, voiced his disapproval, while Texas Republican John Tower, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, hastily flew to the Middle East to study the eployment. National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane met with House Republican leaders...
...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...
...litany had become so predictable that spectators at the public hearings in Manila's steel-and-glass Social Security System building groaned at each recitation. Then last week the room began to buzz expectantly as former Appeals Court Judge and Commission Chairman Corazon Agrava announced a brief recess because of "an important development." The commission members took the elevator to the twelfth floor, then quietly descended to the parking lot and were whisked to Bangkal, a seedy area of Makati across town...
...morning's bulletin from Vienna reported another chill of silence in the diminishing dialogue between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Negotiations on reducing conventional forces had gone into recess with the Warsaw Pact nations refusing to set a date for resumption of the talks. But that afternoon in the Oval Office Ronald Reagan's mood was sanguine, his bearing confident, as he discussed Soviet-American relations with three visitors from TIME. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, Managing Editor Ray Cave and White House Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett. The President was pleased to concentrate on that subject...
After meeting with their constituents during the current congressional recess, Senators and Representatives reported a rising chorus of complaints about the Marines' presence in Lebanon. A common concern was that the roughly 1,800 Marines cannot have much impact in the warring nation, except to draw fire from one or more of the religious groups that see the U.S. as an enemy. "The President has overstated the objective," contended Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton, a conservative Democrat and a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "We're not going to achieve it: a solid, united Lebanon from...