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Role of the U.S. Government in Southern Africa: Congressman Stephen J. Solarz will speak. Room 377 Science Center, Wellesley College...
...funding for this unlikely coalition of resistance groups has come largely from China and from a pro-Western organization, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which includes Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines. Pressure on the Administration to provide U.S. aid has been spearheaded by Congressman Stephen Solarz, a New York Democrat. A strong foe of funding the contras in Nicaragua, Solarz considers the two non-Communist resistance groups in Kampuchea the real "freedom fighters." He helped persuade the House Foreign Affairs Committee to recommend $5 million in aid to those groups...
...some rude jeers greeted the Weinberger doctrine. Luttwak, for example, called Weinberger's views "the equivalent of a doctor saying he will treat patients only if he is assured they will recover." Columnist William Safire headlined a scathing critique ONLY THE 'FUN' WARS, and New York Democrat Stephen Solarz, who heads the House Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, pointed out, "It is a formula for national paralysis if, before we ever use force, we need a Gallup poll showing that two-thirds of the American people are in favor...
...correctness of that assessment will be the central issue next week when Reagan Administration officials appear before the Solarz committee in an effort to win approval for an increase in U.S. economic and military aid to the Philippines for fiscal 1986 from $225 million to $275 million. Much of the funding will come out of a five-year, $900 million package agreed to by Washington in 1983 in exchange for the maintenance of two vital U.S. installations in the Philippines, Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base. That commitment complicates Washington's difficulties in weighing its reservations about...
Privately, Administration officials say that a successful Marxist uprising could take place in half that time. But for the moment, Marcos has more immediate worries. "There happens to be a third alternative, and the name for it is democracy," says Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz of New York, chairman of the House subcommittee. But if the democratic opposition is deprived of the opportunity to compete for power peacefully, he adds, "the President's mistaken analysis of the current situation will become a prophecy for the future...