 January 7 - 'Security Aid' Totals, Fiscal 1988-89 (chart) |
| January 7 - Hill Backs Downing of Libyan MiGs |
| January 7 - Iran-Contra Case May Drop Two Counts |
| January 7 - Senate OK Asked for Anti-Terrorism Treaties |
| January 7 - The Overall Pie Is Shrinking: Key Base-Rights Countries Get Increases in Foreign Aid |
| January 7 - The Statute on National Secrets |
| January 14 - Firms are Probable Target: Furor Over Chemical Weapons Could Lead to New Sanctions |
| January 14 - Two Iran-Contra Charges Against North Dismissed |
| January 21 - Baker Woos Hill With Call for Bipartisanship |
| January 21 - Latin American Debt Problem Threatens Political Stability in Region, Study Warns |
| January 21 - Possible Clash Over Executive Privilege: North, Justice Lawyers Vie Over Subpoenas |
| January 21 - San Marino and Other Stumpers |
| January 28 - El Salvador's ARENA Trying To Improve Its Image on Hill |
| January 28 - Private Firms Seeking to Buy Bugged Embassy in Moscow |
| January 28 - Trial to Commence Jan. 31: Judge Declines to Quash North's Subpoenas |
| February 4 - Publicized Hill Hearings Make Selection Tough: North Trial Opens, With Constraints on Jurors |
| February 4 - Wright Shelves Covert-Action Notice Bill |
| February 11 - Angola Pact Poses Policy Challenges for Bush |
| February 11 - Groundwork for Consultation: President, Hill Leaders Meet With an Eye to Bipartisanship |
| February 11 - Panel Suggests an Overhaul: Foreign Aid System Criticized As Cumbersome, Ineffective |
| February 11 - Secret Documents at Issue: Justice Department Tries to Delay North Trial |
| February 11 - Soviets Completing Afghan Pullout |
| February 11 - The Angola-Namibia Accord: A Timetable |
| February 18 - AFGHANISTAN: Soviets Go Home, Conflict Goes On |
| February 18 - Bush Era Brings Uncertainty To the Liberal Coalition |
| February 18 - IRAN-CONTRA: Jurors Will Take Center Stage When North Trial Proceeds |
| February 18 - NICARAGUA: Plan to Disarm the Contras Revives Policy Debate |
| February 18 - The Man Who Showed Politicians the Water's Edge |
| February 18 - Will Bush-Hill Honeymoon Bring Bipartisanship? |
| February 25 - 'Fair Pricing' for Arms |
| February 25 - CENTRAL AMERICA: Hill Members See Policy Void In Bush Administration |
| February 25 - FOREIGN AID: Head of Agency Joins in Call For Changes in Programs |
| February 25 - IRAN-CONTRA: North Depicted as Liar, Patriot As Trial Gets Under Way |
| February 25 - Jackson-Vanik: A History |
| February 25 - Jewish Exodus From Soviet Union (chart) |
| February 25 - Revisiting Ban on High-Tech Trade |
| February 25 - Summary of Indictment: United States v. Oliver North |
| March 4 - NICARAGUA: Administration Is Considering New Non-Lethal Contra Aid |
| March 4 - North Trial Temporarily Stops Over Use of Secret Memos |
| March 4 - Peace Prospects, New Elections Cloud U.S. Policy Options |
| March 4 - SECTION NOTES: Congress Making New Try On Arms-Sale Curbs |
| March 4 - SECTION NOTES: Mexico Urged to Boost Efforts in Drug War |
| March 4 - The Talks: A Key Rebel Initiative |
| March 4 - U.S. Aid to El Salvador |
| March 11 - Baker Seeking to Sell Congress On a New Policy Approach |
| March 11 - IRAN-CONTRA: President Never Ordered Lies, McFarlane Tells North Trial |
| March 11 - Japan's Technology |
| March 11 - STATE DEPARTMENT: Key Nominee Is Facing Query On His Past Business Ties |
| March 11 - The Baker Fifteen (chart) |
| March 11 - U.S. Japanese Warplane Deal Raises a Welter of Issues |
| March 18 - Aid to the Philippines (chart) |
| March 18 - Baker, Capitol Hill Near a Deal On New Dose of Contra Aid |
| March 18 - CONFIRMATION: Senate Approves Eagleburger For State Department Job |
| March 18 - North's Trial Tests Defense Of Obeying Higher-Ups |
| March 18 - Obey Gives Baker Bad News: Expect Major Budget Cut |
| March 18 - Obey's Roadmap for Cuts |
| March 18 - Proposed 'Mini Marshall Plan' Encounters Budget Strains |
| March 18 - Refugee Funds Sought |
| March 25 - Bush, Hill Agree to Provide Contras With New Aid |
| March 25 - Election of Rightist Cristiani Puts Washington on Hold |
| March 25 - Election of Rightist Cristiani Puts Washington on Hold |
| March 25 - FOREIGN POLICY AGREEMENT: Bipartisan Agreement Reached On Central America Policy |
| March 25 - IRAN-CONTRA: North's Secretary Hall Tells Of Altering Documents |
| March 25 - PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT: President Lauds Policy Accord Reached With the Congress |
| March 25 - STATE DEPARTMENT: House Unit Backs Funding Boost |
| March 25 - TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE: Bush Seeking to Modify Deal For Japanese Warplanes |
| April 1 - Expectations Await Arrival Of Israeli Leader Shamir |
| April 1 - Judge Refuses to Compel Testimony by Reagan |
| April 1 - Key Difference: Talking to the PLO |
| April 1 - NICARAGUA: President's Contra-Aid Deal Still Faces Small Hitches |
| April 1 - SECTION NOTES: Iraq Will Pay $27.3 Million To Kin of Stark Victims |
| April 1 - SECTION NOTES: U.S.-Japanese Talks Stall, But Jet Deal's Still On |
| April 8 - Baker Urges Congress to Pass A Simple Contra-Aid Bill |
| April 8 - DRUG INTERDICTION: Sanctions Facing Uphill Battle |
| April 8 - Egypt Caught in Fiscal Tight Spot |
| April 8 - Gorbachev Yields No Ground Yet |
| April 8 - Little Clear Progress Seen In Wake of Meetings |
| April 8 - North's Testimony, Document Show Top-Level Role in Aid |
| April 8 - REFUGEE QUOTAS: Bush Team Is Moving to Open Gates for Soviet Emigres |
| April 8 - THIRD WORLD DEBT: Brady Plan Faces Hurdles On Hill and Abroad |
| April 15 - Bipartisan Agreement Keeps A Routine Bill Just That |
| April 15 - Contra-Aid Provisions |
| April 15 - Cristiani Asks U.S. Officialdom For Benefit of the Doubt |
| April 15 - DRUG INTERDICTION: Senators Opting for Patience Over Punishing Mexico |
| April 15 - Hill Gives Contra Package Bipartisan Launching |
| April 15 - Letters on Contra Aid |
| April 15 - Loosening the Aid Reins |
| April 15 - North Ends Six Days on Stand As Lawyers Near Wrap-Up |
| April 15 - Panel Considers New Benefits For Caribbean Imports |
| April 15 - State Department Funds (chart) |
| April 15 - Tough Road to 'Free' Elections |
| April 15 - U.S. Aid to Contras |
| April 22 - 'Earmark' Tradition Shows Staying Power on Hill |
| April 22 - ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: New Aid Plan for Philippines Advances in House Panel |
| April 22 - Bush Offers Trade Benefits As Reward for Reforms |
| April 22 - Chronology of the North Case |
| April 22 - DRUG INTERDICTION: Kerry Is Seeking to Tighten Rules on Cooperation |
| April 22 - LATIN AMERICA: Controversies on Aid Programs Are Sidestepped - for Now |
| April 22 - North Jury Begins Deliberating On Lying, Other Charges |
| April 22 - SECTION NOTES: Managua Election 'Reforms' Disappoint Bush Team |
| April 22 - SECTION NOTES: Two Envoy Nominees Face Iran-Contra Queries |
| April 22 - SECTION NOTES: Two Key Hill Members Weigh In On Egypt Aid Freeze |
| April 22 - THE PENTAGON: Bush Team: Records Bespeak Pragmatism, Not Ideology |
| April 29 - Deal Reached on FS-X |
| April 29 - Dispute Flares Over Ethanol Imports |
| April 29 - FOREIGN AID: Africa Subcommittee Attaches Strings to Some Programs |
| April 29 - Hill Presses Administration Over Policy on Emigres |
| April 29 - MARINE/FISHERIES: Conservation Bills Voted by House |
| April 29 - Members Request Hill Inquiry On North Trial Documents |
| April 29 - MX: Ballistic Issue for Democrats |
| April 29 - Rigged Elections Could Bring U.S.-Noriega Rift to Head |
| May 6 - Administration, House Panel Seek Deal on Restrictions |
| May 6 - Bush Administration Officials Defend Accord With Japan |
| May 6 - Caribbean Import Bill OK'd With a Deal on Ethanol |
| May 6 - Germans' Stance on Missiles Puts Bush in Tight Spot |
| May 6 - Key Senators Remain at Odds Over Immigration Reform |
| May 6 - North Verdict Ends Chapter, But Story Continues On |
| May 6 - Old Issue, New Political Equation (chart) |
| May 6 - PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: Bush Seeks 'New Partnership' On Central America Policy |
| May 6 - Projected Total Immigration to United States |
| May 6 - SECTION NOTES: Administration Will Oppose New Pretoria Sanctions |
| May 6 - SECTION NOTES: Bush Team Shifts Slightly On Chemical Weapons |
| May 6 - SECTION NOTES: Hill to the WHO: Don't Admit the PLO |
| May 6 - SECTION NOTES: Wheat Sale to Soviets Approved by Bush |
| May 6 - Where the Bombs Are: |
| May 13 - A Chronology of Events |
| May 13 - Bush Deplores Noriega Regime, Announces U.S. Response |
| May 13 - Congress Is Using Aid as a Lever To Protest Rights Abuses |
| May 13 - CONGRESSIONAL STATEMENT: Joint Leaders Praise President On Actions Against Panama |
| May 13 - Crisis Gives Bush a Lesson In the Limits of Power |
| May 13 - Former Bush Adviser Gregg Grilled on Contra Role |
| May 13 - SECTION NOTES: PLO Bid to Join the WHO Continues to Rile Hill |
| May 13 - SECTION NOTES: President Weighs Easing Jackson-Vanik Curbs |
| May 13 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Declines to Punish Bahamas on Drug Issue |
| May 13 - Somalia and the Sudan: Two Countries Plagued by Poverty, Famine and War |
| May 13 - TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE: Critics of U.S.-Japan Jet Pact Unlikely to Block Venture |
| May 13 - THIRD WORLD DEBT: Funding Sought For IDB |
| May 20 - 'Super 301' Process: How it Works |
| May 20 - Bush Proposes Soviet Policy Of 'Beyond Containment' |
| May 20 - Europeans Cite the U.S. |
| May 20 - FOREIGN AID: House Threatens WHO on PLO |
| May 20 - NICARAGUA: Doubts Cast on Soviet Claims Of Halting Arms Shipments |
| May 20 - OAS Turning Up the Pressure On Noriega to Step Down |
| May 20 - Six Countries Are Likeliest Candidates For Inclusion on Trade 'Priority' List |
| May 20 - THE STATE DEPARTMENT: Senate Committee Drafts Bill Minus the Dollar Amounts |
| May 20 - U.S. Plies Uncharted Waters In Effort to Open Markets |
| May 20 - U.S.-Japan Fighter-Jet Deal Is Cleared for Takeoff |
| May 20 - U.S.-SOVIET RELATIONS: Bush Stance on Jackson-Vanik Offers Something for All |
| May 27 - ARMS CONTROL: Bush, on More Positive Note, Leaves for NATO Summit |
| May 27 - Bush Cheers Soviet Changes, Wishes Gorbachev Well |
| May 27 - Intention to Change System Encounters Hill Reality |
| May 27 - SECTION NOTES: Armitage, Choice for Army, Withdraws Nomination |
| May 27 - SECTION NOTES: Baker Offers Blunt Words On Mideast Divisions |
| May 27 - SECTION NOTES: House Votes to Praise Chinese Protesters |
| May 27 - SECTION NOTES: Obey Warns He'll Hold Up Aid Over Iran-Contra Questions |
| May 27 - TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY: House Panel Alters Fighter-Jet Bill |
| June 3 - Bush Acts to Meet Challenge Of Gorbachev Diplomacy |
| June 3 - Bush Meets With NATO Allies, Seeks to Forge New Unity |
| June 3 - Objections by Administration Imperil House Measure |
| June 3 - SECTION NOTES: . . . And to Poland in an Attempt To Promote Free Voting |
| June 3 - SECTION NOTES: Capitol Hill Is Moving to Provide Election Aid to Nicaragua . . . |
| June 3 - SECTION NOTES: House Scheduled to Debate Japan Fighter-Jet Deal |
| June 3 - Sides in East-West Arms Control Minuet Bringing Their Steps Closer Together |
| June 3 - Summit Leaders Issue Outline Of NATO's Past, Future |
| June 10 - Bhutto, on Visit, Moves to Ease U.S. Worries Over Policies |
| June 10 - Brutal Crackdown in Beijing Deals Blow to U.S. Ties |
| June 10 - China's Violence Leads Bush To Order U.S. Sanctions |
| June 10 - Chronology of U.S.-China Relations |
| June 10 - FOREIGN RELATIONS: Logjam Broken on State Bill, Controversial Nomination |
| June 10 - IMMIGRATION: Refugee-Fund Shift Draws Protests |
| June 10 - Restrictions on El Salvador Snarl Authorization Bill |
| June 10 - SECTION NOTES: In Wake of Poland Voting, Hill Moves on Aid Plan |
| June 10 - SECTION NOTES: OAS Extends Its Deadline For Deal With Noriega |
| June 10 - SECTION NOTES: Palau Independence Measure Is Revived in House |
| June 10 - Senate Panel Votes Overhaul Of Visa-Allotment System |
| June 10 - TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE: Hill Puts Strings on FS-X Deal, But Bush Holds Veto Card |
| June 10 - THIRD WORLD DEBT: Congress Uneasy at Slow Pace Of Progress on Brady Plan |
| June 17 - Compromise Over Power |
| June 17 - Covert Military-Aid Plan Raises Hill Divisions |
| June 17 - NOMINATIONS: After Delays, Senate Confirms Envoys Burt, Negroponte |
| June 17 - NOMINATIONS: Senators Grill Bush Ex-Aide On His Iran-Contra Role |
| June 17 - SECTION NOTES: In Wake of Chinese Crackdown, House May Halt OPIC Aid |
| June 17 - SECTION NOTES: Lawmakers Push for Waiver Of Jackson-Vanik Rules |
| June 17 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Votes Trade Benefits For Poland, Hungary |
| June 17 - SECTION NOTES: Poindexter Case Takes a Turn Similar to That of North's |
| June 17 - Senate Bill: Snail's Pace |
| June 17 - TRADE: Hills Gets Praise On 'Super 301' |
| June 17 - TRADE: House Panel Awaits Word On Steel-Import Quotas |
| June 17 - Trouble-Prone Measure Making Progress Despite Disputes |
| June 24 - A Policy Confrontation on China? |
| June 24 - CAMBODIA: On Arms Issue, A Tug of War |
| June 24 - Export Subsidies Attacked |
| June 24 - House Begins Laborious Task Of Debating Assistance Bill |
| June 24 - IRAN-CONTRA: North Sentencing Runs Into Snag |
| June 24 - NOMINATIONS: Controversial Gregg Gets Nod From Senate Committee |
| June 24 - NOMINATIONS:Too Much Politics, Says Sarbanes |
| June 24 - POLAND AND HUNGARY: House Votes Trade Benefits To Encourage Reforms |
| June 24 - Questions on Human Rights Precede Mobutu Visit |
| June 24 - U.S. Still Will Back Savimbi Despite Cease-Fire Pact |
| July 1 - House Stiffens Sanctions on China |
| July 1 - House Votes Authorization Bill In Show of Bipartisanship |
| July 1 - HUNGARY: House Turns Down A Trade Carrot |
| July 1 - IRAN-CONTRA: Judge Denies North Effort To Challenge Verdict |
| July 1 - Obey Plan Envisions Big Cuts In Military, Economic Aid |
| July 1 - PALAU: House Votes Compact and Aid, But Time Obstacles Loom |
| July 1 - THIRD WORLD DEBT: Banks Pressed to Cooperate In Brady Debt Plan |
| July 8 - For Bush, Problematic Measure May Be Best Alternative |
| July 8 - For Philippines, a Major Aid Boost |
| July 8 - Foreign Aid Authorizations (chart) |
| July 8 - North Gets Fine, Not Jail Term |
| July 15 - Bush, on Trip, Offers Amity But Only Limited Aid |
| July 15 - CHINA: Senate Approves Sanctions Plan |
| July 15 - Democrats, Republicans Clash On Foreign Aid Priorities |
| July 15 - INTELLIGENCE: Beilenson Keeping Chairmanship |
| July 15 - NICARAGUA: CIA's Election Role Under Scrutiny |
| July 15 - NOMINATIONS: Hecht Criticized, But Confirmed |
| July 15 - Panel, in Surprise, Finishes Authorization Measure |
| July 15 - THIRD WORLD DEBT: Reduction Urged For Mexico |
| July 15 - TRADE: House Approves Export Bill |
| July 22 - Moscow Embassy Woes |
| July 22 - NICARAGUA: Baker Agreement Is Challenged |
| July 22 - Panel Urges Executive Branch To Boost Anti-Spy Efforts |
| July 22 - PROVISIONS: Senate-Passed Immigration Bill First Overhaul Since 1965 |
| July 22 - Senate Eases Curb on PLO Talks |
| July 22 - Senators Use Bill as a Forum For Foreign Policy Views |
| July 22 - Skirting Partisanship, House Votes Foreign Aid Funds |
| July 22 - THIRD WORLD DEBT: Summit Backs Brady Plan; Mexico Deal Awaited |
| July 29 - Commerce, Justice, |
| July 29 - NOMINATIONS: Foreign Relations Gives Nod To Controversial Envoys |
| July 29 - Panel OKs Temporary Haven For Chinese, Salvadorans |
| July 29 - SECTION NOTES: Mexico, Banks Reach Deal on Debt |
| August 5 - Hostage Incidents Leave Hill With Few Policy Options |
| August 5 - IMMIGRATION: Citizenship Process Is Streamlined |
| August 5 - IMMIGRATION: House Drops Return-Home Rule For Chinese Students Here |
| August 5 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Puts Off Decision On CIA Nicaragua Role |
| August 5 - SECTION NOTES: Senate GOP Delays Any Effort To Thwart FS-X Bill Veto |
| August 12 - Foreign Policy |
| August 12 - House Panel Claims Its Right To CIA Inquiry Reports |
| August 12 - New Accord Alters Equation For Contras, Hill Allies |
| August 12 - SECTION NOTES: Waiver for Chinese Students Snags on Unrelated Issue |
| August 12 - The New Accord: Dates, Procedures |
| August 19 - Bush Nomination Returned; Fight Over Gregg Awaits |
| August 19 - Islands' Quest for Autonomy Making Headway on Hill |
| August 26 - Decision on Bugged Facility Eludes Administration |
| August 26 - EGYPT: Aid Payments Used to Spur More Economic Reforms |
| August 26 - PANAMA: OAS Ministers Admit Failure In Effort to Oust Noriega |
| August 26 - U.S. Aid Plan to Remain Intact After Non-Communists' Rise |
| September 2 - Along the Border, a Staggering Face-Off |
| September 2 - Issue of U.S. Troop Strength Is Being Revived on Hill |
| September 2 - PANAMA: As Noriega Clings to Power, U.S. Heats Up Rhetoric |
| September 2 - War With Drug Lords Lends Urgency to Bush Aid Plan |
| September 9 - Bush Turns to Military Aid To Stanch Narcotics Flow |
| September 9 - Foreign Aid Figures (chart) |
| September 9 - HUNGARY: Trade Concession Voted by House |
| September 16 - Administration Plans to Seek More Election Assistance |
| September 16 - Dispute Over 'Tied Aid' |
| September 16 - Drug Plan: Questions on Aid, Troops |
| September 16 - Foreign Aid Enjoys Boomlet Of Support in Hill Panel |
| September 16 - Hill, Administration at Odds |
| September 16 - House Banking Panel OKs Bill To Boost Aid, Help Exports |
| September 16 - NOMINATIONS: After Delay of Six Months, Senate Confirms Gregg |
| September 16 - TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE: Bush Veto of FS-X Conditions Barely Survives in Senate |
| September 23 - Democrats Try to Prod Bush To Increase Aid Program |
| September 23 - Hungary: Trade Benefits |
| September 23 - NICARAGUA: Democrats Want More Details On Election Aid Plan |
| September 23 - SECTION NOTES: Shevardnadze Visit Raises Summit Expectations |
| September 23 - SECTION NOTES: Washington Turf Fight Ties Up ACDA Authorization |
| September 23 - Senate Rejects Conditions On Aid to El Salvador |
| September 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: Commerce, Justice, State Bill Finally Passed by Senate |
| September 30 - Bush Says of Chemical Arms: 'Rid Earth of This Scourge' |
| September 30 - Commerce, Justice, State (chart) |
| September 30 - In the Works: Sanctions |
| September 30 - JORDAN: Arms Aid Promise Is Being Honored |
| September 30 - NICARAGUA: Hill May Force a Scaling Back Of Bush Election-Aid Plan |
| September 30 - SECTION NOTES: Another Ambassador-Designate Encounters a Delay |
| September 30 - SECTION NOTES: Mitchell Adds His Voice to Call For Lifting Jackson-Vanik |
| September 30 - SECTION NOTES: State Department Conference On Hold for Foreign Aid |
| September 30 - Significance of Jackson Hole Talks Is One More of Tone Than Substance |
| September 30 - THE PLO: Senators Oppose Visa for Arafat |
| September 30 - THIRD WORLD DEBT: House Banking OKs Aid Bill |
| September 30 - U.S.-Soviet Initiatives Revive Interest in Nerve Gas Ban |
| October 7 - Congress Is Willing to Defer Imposing New Sanctions |
| October 7 - Congress Puts Heat on Bush To Bolster Aid Program |
| October 7 - Hill Support for Election Aid Heralds a New Strategy |
| October 7 - NOMINATIONS: Senate Confirms Envoy to Spain |
| October 7 - Out of the Game: the CIA |
| October 7 - PANAMA: Failed Coup Against Noriega Stirs Hill Frustrations |
| October 7 - The Aid Plans: |
| October 14 - Abortive Coup Spurs Debate Over How Much to Help |
| October 14 - ARMS SALES: Saudi Tank Deal In the Pipeline |
| October 14 - ARMS SALES: Third Try to Close Iran Loophole |
| October 14 - Bush Backtracks on Timing of Ban |
| October 14 - From Disputed Election to Failed Coup A Chronology of the Panama Crisis |
| October 14 - SECTION NOTES: Foreign Aid Legislation Remains Gridlocked |
| October 14 - SECTION NOTES: House, President in Conflict On CIA Inspector Reports |
| October 14 - Senate Panel Seeks Sanctions On Nerve Gas Producers |
| October 14 - Senators Blast Voting-Aid Bill As Effort to 'Buy' Election |
| October 14 - Size of Economic Aid Package Puts Bush in a Quandary |
| October 14 - The Poland Bill, in Brief |
| October 21 - A Wary Senate Casts Its Lot With an Election Gambit |
| October 21 - ARMENIA: Anti-Genocide Measure Gives Administration Heartburn |
| October 21 - Congress Presses Its Initiative To Aid Economic Reforms |
| October 21 - Embassy Debate: Players |
| October 21 - From Training to Baseball Caps |
| October 21 - PANAMA: Administration Seeks Leeway In Helping Future Coups |
| October 21 - Putting Cold War on Ice |
| October 21 - SECTION NOTES: Another Bump in the Road For Foreign Aid Bill |
| October 21 - SECTION NOTES: Korean President Warns Hill Against Troop Cutback |
| October 21 - State Department Weighs In: Raze the Moscow Building |
| October 21 - THIRD WORLD DEBT: Development Aid, Ex-Im Bank Get House Authorization |
| October 28 - Action on Another Front |
| October 28 - Boren Seizes the Limelight By Sticking to the Middle |
| October 28 - Bush, Hill Reach Agreement On Covert Action Issues |
| October 28 - CIA Watchdog Dispute |
| October 28 - DRUGS: House May Tighten Controls On Aid to Andes Nations |
| October 28 - House OKs Temporary Haven For Selected Foreigners |
| October 28 - Progress on Popular Aid Bill Thwarted by Tax Dispute |
| October 28 - SECTION NOTES: House Votes, Again, to Tighten Controls on Arms Sales |
| October 28 - SECTION NOTES: State Department Bill Snarled Over Foreign Aid Issue |
| October 28 - Soviets' Admission on Radar: A Disarming Maneuver? |
| November 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Hill, Administration at Odds Over Foreign Aid Measure |
| November 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Popular Item: Poland Aid |
| November 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Turf Fight Develops Over Funding Bill |
| November 4 - Bush and Gorbachev to Meet On the Sea in December |
| November 4 - CHEMICAL WEAPONS: Making Concessions to Bush, Panel Backs Sanctions Bill |
| November 4 - INTELLIGENCE: Bush Puts Pledge Into Writing |
| November 4 - INTELLIGENCE: Rep. Hyde Takes Aim at Panel Over 'Leaks' of Its Secrets |
| November 4 - NICARAGUA: Washington Tries to Keep Cool As Ortega Nixes Cease-Fire |
| November 4 - PALAU: Independence Bill Gains in Senate |
| November 4 - SECTION NOTES: Helms Wins Senate OK For North's Pension |
| November 4 - U.S.-SOVIET RELATIONS: East Bloc Is the Likely Focus Of Non-Summit Summit |
| November 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: Commerce, State Bill Clears |
| November 11 - Authorization Bill Contains Sanctions Against China |
| November 11 - Foreign Aid Deals Reached, But Veto Threat Remains |
| November 11 - Leaders Trying to Conclude Session by Thanksgiving |
| November 11 - Pitching in for Poland, Hungary |
| November 11 - SECTION NOTES: Secord Pleads Guilty, Agrees To Cooperate in Inquiry |
| November 11 - SECTION NOTES: Ways and Means Panel Backs Chemical Arms Sanctions |
| November 11 - Senate Seeks Better Oversight Of the CIA's Operations |
| November 11 - Solidarity, American Style, Is in Store for Walesa |
| November 11 - State Department Authorizations (chart) |
| November 11 - The Speaker's Right to Know |
| November 11 - Walesa in Washington |
| November 18 - A Boost for Some Refugees |
| November 18 - A Clash Over Philosophy, Turf |
| November 18 - Aid Plans Make Progress |
| November 18 - Dramatic Moves for Reform Challenge U.S. Strategy |
| November 18 - Every Member of Congress a Pole |
| November 18 - For Salvador, Uneasy Aid |
| November 18 - Foreign Aid Appropriations |
| November 18 - Foreign Aid Measure Puts Hill Sharply at Odds With Bush |
| November 18 - INTELLIGENCE: Access to Secrets Goes to Speaker |
| November 18 - INTELLIGENCE: Covert-Action Issue Finessed On Authorization Measure |
| November 18 - Remembering the Home Folks |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: House Approves Bill to Punish Countries on Nerve Gas |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: Philippine War Veterans Near Naturalization |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: State Department Bill Clears, But Faces Bush's Veto |
| November 18 - Upheavals in East Bloc Fuel Momentum for Arms Cuts |
| November 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: After Bush Veto, Hill Retreats To Save Foreign Aid Bill |
| November 25 - DRUGS: Bush Wins Andean Initiative; Two Narcotics Bills Falter |
| November 25 - European Ferment Ups Ante For Bush and Gorbachev |
| November 25 - Hill Sidesteps a Confrontation Over Continuing Arms Aid |
| November 25 - IMMIGRATION: Chinese Students Win Waiver |
| November 25 - Key Topics: Events in Eastern Europe And Some Recurring Old Questions |
| November 25 - Legislation Enacted to Begin Business, Economic Aid |
| November 25 - PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT: Bush Vetoes Foreign Aid Bill Over U.N. Agency Funding |
| November 25 - SECTION NOTES: Intelligence Bill Sent to Bush |
| November 25 - SECTION NOTES: Sen. Dole Drops Resolution On Armenia - For Now |
| November 25 - SECTION NOTES: Tied-Aid, Development Bank Authorization Cleared |
| November 25 - State Department Bill Dies |
| December 2 - Anti-Terrorist Provisions |
| December 2 - Bills Boost Anti-Drug Efforts Of Schools, Andean Nations |
| December 2 - BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS: Senate OKs Banning Germ Warfare |
| December 2 - Congress Finally Clears Way For Limited Independence |
| December 2 - Congress Slow to Alter Laws Over Iran-Contra Abuses |
| December 2 - Iran-Contra Cases: A Status Report |
| December 2 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Banking |
| December 2 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Foreign Policy |
| December 2 - PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT: Bush Veto of Chinese Immigration Relief |
| December 2 - SECTION NOTES: 3 Ambassadorial Appointees Fall by the Wayside |
| December 2 - SECTION NOTES: Chemical-Arms Sanctions Bill Casualty of Turf Dispute |
| December 2 - SECTION NOTES: Hill Leaders Agree to Continue Non-Military Contra Aid |
| December 2 - TRADE: Hill Is Pressing Jackson-Vanik |
| December 2 - Veto of Chinese-Students Bill Touches Off Furor on Hill |
| December 2 - WHAT'S AHEAD: High Court to Consider 'Right to Die' Issue |
| December 9 - A Shift on Chemical Arms |
| December 9 - A Sticking Point: Central America |
| December 9 - Bush Pledges to Move Ahead |
| December 9 - Congress Likely to Be on Board For New Arms-Limit Pacts |
| December 9 - East-Bloc Political Turmoil Chronology of Big Changes |
| December 9 - Malta Summit Adds Impetus For Arms, Trade Pacts |
| December 9 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: 'Non-Summit Summit' Sets Real Summit for 1990 |
| December 9 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush Vows NATO, U.S. Role During Europe's Turmoil |
| December 9 - Scoresheet on START Talks Shaped by Reagan's Beliefs |
| December 9 - START Issues: Short List |
| December 9 - THE SUMMIT: Bush, Reporters Continue Talk |
| December 16 - Bush Bid to Fix Beijing Ties Strains Those With Hill |
| December 16 - Hill Panel Leaders Prod Bush On Long-Range Strategy |
| December 16 - New Challenge to Contra Aid |
| December 16 - Waxing, Waning of Threat Shapes NATO-Force Debate |
| December 23 - Invasion, Noriega Ouster Win Support on Capitol Hill |
| December 23 - Members Speak Out on Panama |
| December 23 - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Objective Is To Bring Noriega To U.S. Justice, Bush Says |
| December 23 - U.S. Incursions Since 1900 |
| December 30 - EMBASSIES: Bush Administration to Raze Bugged Moscow Facility |
| December 30 - SECTION NOTES: Bush Sets No Time Limit On Troops in Panama |
| December 30 - Two China Sanctions Lifted |
