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...were only a few words on Iranscam. He expressed "one major regret" -- that his Iranian policy "did not work." Though he came closer than ever before to admitting that his Administration had been trading arms for U.S. hostages, he stopped far short of the apology that some of his staunchest supporters had suggested. Indeed, without ever mentioning that weapons sales had been involved, Reagan proclaimed defiantly, "Certainly it was not wrong to try to secure freedom for our citizens held in barbaric captivity." Six sentences later, with no apparent awareness of inconsistency, he pledged that the U.S. will never "yield...
...even the staunchest advocates of aid, though, deny its many problems. One of the most glaring has been the intractable misery of Africa despite more than 20 years of intensive foreign assistance. A recent study by the 24-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found "virtually no progress in per-capita income over the past two decades" in countries south of the Sahara Desert. Worse yet, said the report, sub-Saharan Africa now produces less food per person than it did in 1960, despite the tens of billions of aid dollars spent on rural development. Among reasons for this...
...Manuel Noriega, commander of Panama's defense force and the nation's strongman since 1983. Helms accused Noriega, a onetime intelligence chief and right-hand man of the late populist dictator Omar Torrijos, of being "head of the biggest drug-trafficking operation in the Western Hemisphere." Even Noriega's staunchest supporters in Washington suspected that Helms was on to something. Says one Reagan Administration official: "Noriega gets a cut of every kind of illicit business down there...
...UNITED STATES has shown a disturbing tendency to overlook the Israeli government's increasingly antidemocratic activities in the interest of "strategic cooperation." True, Israel is the United States' staunchest ally in the region, and abuses are hardly as serious as in other countries in the Middle East. But we should expect better from a state founded in response to intolerance--one that for so long was a model of principled government...
...murdered in a death camp. Bachrach's parents--like some other shellshocked survivors--had their son baptized. But young George always considered himself Jewish. As an adult, he became an active member of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League. He has been one of the area's staunchest supporters of Soviet Jewry. He has always been proud of his Jewish heritage...