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...twelve-day, ten-country "listening tour" of Central America in an unexpectedly sanguine mood about starting some kind of dialogue between the rebels and the Salvadoran government. He is expected to express an emphasis on reconciliation in his report to the President this week. Predicted one National Security Council staffer: "I would not be at all surprised to see a dialogue worked out." The Magaña government, backed by the Reagan Administration, has long insisted that the guerrillas must win their political power at the voting booth, not the bargaining table...
Life Insurance urged readers to ask their Senators and Congressmen to vote against unisex insurance bills. Said one congressional-committee staffer: "It seems like they're really pulling out the stops...
Then why all of a sudden is Bob Reich such a hot property? According to a Hart issues staffer, "Industrial and trade policy is central to the current policy debate and his book has hit a responsive chord...
...however, that his campaign knowledge is very limited, and he does not intend to get involved beyond a small amount of issue advising to the present candidates. He likes playing the field and refuses to say when he will decide to go with one candidate. But, says one campaign staffer. "Sometime later this year, there will be considerable pressure on him to pick a camp...
...other hand, Congress faces a dilemma too. Suspicious of the Administration as many of its members are, they are also aware of the danger of seeming to take the side of the angrily anti-American Nicaraguan government. Says one congressional staffer: "No member of Congress wants to be looked on as soft on Commies. The Administration has been playing that card on all fronts, and on this issue it's having a powerful impact...