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...Administration faces another difficult selling job in persuading the rebellious Congress to go along with its policy of overt aid to the government of El Salvador and covert help to opponents of the government in Nicaragua. In this foreign policy thicket, Democratic opposition is the most serious obstacle. Still, even the Republican-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted in March to slash in half the $60 million in military aid that Reagan wants to switch from Morocco to El Salvador. The President has also asked for an additional $50 million in military funds for the Salvadoran government. The Senate committee...
Between the catcalls and the wild charges, the Falwell visit produced a pretty sterile debate. The K-School audience's shameful rudeness simply enhanced Falwell's poised image, and the preacher easily glided through the thicket of questions. When he had arguments ready, he used them. When stumped--us he was by a query asking why he opposes abortion but favors the death penalty--he resorted smoothly to his usual vapid rhetoric ("I want everybody to have the benefits of pluralism.") It was, on the whole, a silly evening...
...filibuster level lowered from two-thirds to 60%," he says, "I spent four straight months on the floor of the Senate. The leadership fought me hard on it, but I won. I spent hundreds of hours changing the intelligence bill, restructuring the FBI. I walked right into that thicket. The idea that I don't stick with things is just wrong...
Didion finds nothing in El Salvador that would refute this dispiriting wisdom. Everything about the place offends and frightens her. Fear and loathing seem to have been part of her carry-on baggage. At the airport, her papers are checked in "a thicket of automatic weapons." Cherokee Chiefs, synonymous with family fun in the States, lurk about as the preferred vehicles of death squads that "disappear" people suspected of guerrilla activities or sympathies. She visits the body dumps of El Playon and Puerta del Diablo, where many of the disappeared turn up dead and disfigured. She peeks into the tallies...
...legislation would chop through the regulatory thicket that has helped to prop up prices. It would deregulate all gas by January 1986 and, in a stunning departure from the Administration's free-market principles, would exercise a rarely used federal power by throwing open long-term contracts between producers and pipelines for immediate renegotiation...