Word: solarz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stephen J. Solarz, D-N.Y., the subcommittee chairman, said the bill would not be taken up by the full House Foreign Affairs Committee until after Habib returns, so that his findings would be given ample consideration before final passage...
...Solarz said he felt it was important to act quickly to send a signal to the Philippines that "we will not countenance a stolen election...
...possible ways of getting a legitimate government, Solarz told reporters later, would be through a new election or "procedures to install the person who clearly won the election...I'm sure the Filipinos have the ingenuity to find...
...Washington last week a congressional subcommittee held hearings on accusations that since 1981 the Marcoses had invested more than $200 million in four Manhattan buildings and a Long Island estate. New York Democrat Stephen Solarz, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, estimated that the properties, which include the gilt- leafed Crown Building on Fifth Avenue and a new nine-story shopping mall in Herald Square, are worth $350 million. "Mr. and Mrs. Marcos are now in the world class of corrupt national leaders," Solarz said. "They may have secretly led a headlong, multibillion-dollar...
...narrow legal issue is whether the Marcoses or their political friends have siphoned U.S. economic or military aid to build private nest eggs. While Solarz has hinted strongly at the possibility, he has failed so far to produce evidence of wrongdoing. "Solarz has devoted 100 hours to the issue," acting Foreign Minister Pacifico Castro said last week in Washington, "and has not found a single iota of evidence that would stand the test of judicial process...