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...stormy days of debate, the Senate last week voted by the expected margin of 53 to 47 to enact the package. The measure provides $70 million in military help and $30 million in "humanitarian" aid for the contras, plus $300 million in assistance to Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala. It now faces a House-Senate conference committee, where Speaker Tip O'Neill may again attempt to stall it. But even Democratic opponents expect it to pass before November's midterm elections...
This is not the first time that the State Department has bristled at foreign policy meddling by Helms, whose rhetorical bark outweighs his political bite. In 1984, when the Administration was successfully backing Moderate Jose Napoleon Duarte for the presidency of El Salvador, Helms loudly supported Far Right Candidate Roberto d'Aubuisson, who was reputedly linked to the country's death squads. More recently, Helms has assailed Mexican officials as being corrupt and dealing in drugs when State was trying to cool the cross-border feuding...
...terms if convicted. Four independent radio stations, one of them run by the Roman Catholic Church, were ordered to halt news broadcasts during the protests. Strike organizers were especially encouraged by the participation of truckers. In 1973 a crippling work stoppage by drivers against the Marxist-oriented government of Salvador Allende Gossens helped prompt the coup that brought Pinochet to power...
...casualties from sparking deeper U.S. involvement, the bill forbids U.S. military advisers to the contras to operate within 20 miles of the Honduran-Nicaraguan border, although the White House indicated it would contest this restriction. The package also provides an additional $300 million in aid to Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica, where faltering economies are far more threatening than Sandinistas...
...best-known opposition figure in the South African Parliament, read from a list of several hundred individuals believed to be in detention, demanding to know how many South Africans were actually in custody and how many of those were under 21. Declared Suzman: "South Africa has become like El Salvador and Argentina, where thousands of people go missing and the governments won't acknowledge where they are or whether they are dead or alive." At week's end Parliament adjourned until Aug. 18, depriving journalists for the next seven weeks of information elicited by the parliamentary questions of opposition legislators...