 January 9 - Major Provisions of the Fiscal 1988 Reconciliation Bill |
| January 23 - Civil Warfare Intensifies Despite Political Gains: Peace Plan Compliance Is in the Eye of Beholder |
| January 23 - North Investigation Will Continue |
| January 23 - Ortega Ends State of Emergency |
| January 23 - Putting a Spin on the Treaty: Three Options |
| January 23 - Reagan Certifies No Cease-Fire in Nicaragua |
| January 23 - Rules, Timetables: What the Pact Would Do (WR 01/23/88 p. 150; 125 lines) |
| January 30 - Contra Vote May Not Be Clear Test After All |
| January 30 - Dole: Strong Endorsement, Call for Fixes |
| January 30 - INF Treaty: Star Vehicle for Political Agendas |
| January 30 - Lobby Groups Take Aim at the Undecideds |
| January 30 - Mandatory Notice to Congress: Senate Panel Approves a Bill Tightening Covert Operations |
| January 30 - Ortega Letter to Reagan: Democracy in Nicaragua Sooner If U.S. Would End Contra Aid |
| January 30 - Reagan Asks for More Contra Aid |
| January 30 - Reagan Explains Request: Contra Aid Leads to Sandinista 'Concessions' |
| February 6 - 'Security Aid; Totals, Fiscal 1987-88 (chart) |
| February 6 - Contra-Aid Denial Shifts Burden to Democrats |
| February 6 - One Option: Reshuffling Funds Administration Seeks to Ease Sting of Foreign Aid Cutbacks |
| February 6 - Text of Reagan's Feb. 2 Speech: President Uses TV Address To Lobby for New Contra Aid |
| February 13 - Democrats to Offer 'Humanitarian' Assistance: Reagan, GOP Remain Aloof From New Contra-Aid Plan |
| February 13 - Leverage Is Limited, Stakes Are High: United States Putting New Heat on Noriega |
| February 20 - Democrats, Republicans Draft Options: House Vote Is Set for Feb. 25 On New Contra-Aid Package |
| February 20 - Major Proposals in Reagan's Fiscal 1989 Budget |
| February 20 - Reagan Team in Policy Pinch Over PLO Office |
| February 27 - All But a Favored Few Feel Pain of Aid Cutbacks |
| February 27 - Confrontation Over Complex Packages: Partisanship Colors New Round on Contra Aid |
| February 27 - Foreign Aid: Pledges and Requests (chart) |
| February 27 - Modernization of Other Weapons at Issue: INF Treaty Negotiator Duels With GOP Critics |
| February 27 - North Plans for Iran-Contra Profits Disclosed |
| February 27 - Portugal, a Host to Bases, Turns Up the Heat |
| February 27 - South Africa Hearings Set |
| February 27 - Study Finds 'Vulnerabilities' in Embassy Security |
| March 5 - Canal Treaties a Potent Political Issue Panama Crisis: U.S. Embargo Move Slows |
| March 5 - Contra Fund-Raisers Get Set to Step Up Private Efforts to Sustain the Contras |
| March 5 - House Defeat Clouds Outlook for Contra Aid |
| March 5 - Panama Amendment Proposed: Measure on Covert Operations Stumbles During Senate Debate |
| March 5 - Reinterpretation Issue: Key Democrats Set to Support One INF Treaty Amendment |
| March 5 - Reports Say Drug Trafficking Still High |
| March 5 - Tough Stance by Liberals, Conservatives: Senate Urges Continuation of Afghan Rebel Aid |
| March 5 - U.N. Protests Closure of PLO Office |
| March 12 - Administration Moves to Close PLO Office |
| March 12 - Administration, Hill Put Peace Pressure on Israel |
| March 12 - Afghanistan Measure Stalled |
| March 12 - First Boland-Law Case: McFarlane Guilty of Misleading Congress on Contra-Aid Efforts |
| March 12 - No Rush for Another House Vote: Backers in Senate Try to Resuscitate Contra Aid |
| March 12 - Senators Who Signed the Letter (chart) |
| March 12 - Shultz' 'Interlocking' Timetables |
| March 12 - U.S. Puts Sanctions on Panama |
| March 19 - 'Just Tell Us What You're Doing': Senate Passes Bill Requiring 48-Hour Covert-Action Notice |
| March 19 - 'Kisses' for Noriega |
| March 19 - Foreign Policy Notes: Two Veterans Seek to Set Up Diplomatic Office in Vietnam |
| March 19 - Iran-Contra Indictments Announced |
| March 19 - Marine Guards' Legacy: Tighter Procedures |
| March 19 - Military Moves Stir Up Fresh Contra-Aid Debate |
| March 19 - Prosecutor Gets Indictments of North, Others |
| March 19 - Tear It Down or Rebuild It? Fate of New Moscow Embassy Remains in Limbo |
| March 19 - The Charges, the Defendants, the Penalties |
| March 19 - Trade Sanctions Against Haiti Proposed |
| March 19 - Transport Safety, Non-Proliferation at Issue: Japan-U.S. Nuclear Pact Stirs Concern on Hill |
| March 19 - U.S. Leaders Shun Confrontation With Shamir |
| March 19 - When Time and Distance Count: Military, Trade Needs Change, But Panama Canal Remains Key |
| March 26 - 'Symmetry' Sought on Arms Supplies: U.S.-Soviet Impasse Remains Over Pullout From Afghanistan |
| March 26 - A Moscow Summit |
| March 26 - Cease-Fire Pact Changes Political Equations |
| March 26 - Chronology of Hill-Reagan Tug of War... ...Over U.S. Involvement With Contras |
| March 26 - Court Battle Begins Over PLO Offices |
| March 26 - GAO Says Little Went for 'Emergency': Report Questions Use of 1986 Aid to Honduras |
| March 26 - House Panels Weighing Five Proposals: South Africa's Critics Renew Bid for Sanctions |
| March 26 - INF Treaty Shows Strength in Senate Markup |
| March 26 - North, Poindexter Plead Not Guilty |
| March 26 - Opponents of Pact Wanted More Debate: Senate Rejects Move to Block U.S.-Japan Nuclear Agreement |
| March 26 - Senate Panel Approves Palau Bill |
| March 26 - Senate Wants More Pressure on Noriega |
| March 26 - Trepidation Over Rightist Victory Salvador Elections: An Ill Omen for U.S. Ties? |
| March 26 - Veterans Support Vietnam Offices |
| April 2 - After Contra Battle, a New Set of Policy Issues |
| April 2 - Guam Also Seeks More Autonomy and Help |
| April 2 - Lopsided Votes Belie Lingering Divisions: Solemn Congress Approves Contra-Aid Package |
| April 2 - More U.S. Pressure Exerted on Panama |
| April 2 - Old Room Holds Senate's High-Tech Secrets |
| April 2 - Panel Backs Pact 17-2: Treaty-Interpretation Issue Complicating INF Approval |
| April 2 - Sen. Nunn Remains Concerned: 'Futuristic' Weapons Prove a Sticky INF Issue |
| April 2 - Senate Passes Bill; House Interior Says Not Yet: Palau's Bid for Independence Stalled in House |
| April 2 - Speaker Wright's Letter |
| April 2 - U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia to Be Replaced |
| April 9 - Hill Members Turn Up Pressure in War on Drugs |
| April 9 - Soviet Pullout From Afghanistan to Begin |
| April 9 - Tough New Sanctions Put on Panama |
| April 16 - 'Futuristics' Debate Clouds INF Floor Schedule |
| April 16 - Afghan Deal Won't End War, Policy Questions |
| April 16 - Election Timing a Factor: Classified Data, Immunity Issue Pose Delay in Iran-Contra Case |
| April 16 - First Time Aid Used as Stick: Senate Slaps Mexico on Failure Of Drug-Interdiction Efforts |
| April 16 - FOREIGN POLICY NOTES Elliott Abrams Apologizes to Senate Panel |
| April 16 - FOREIGN POLICY NOTES: Duarte Moves to Avert Aid Cut |
| April 16 - Provisions of the Afghanistan Accord From the Pullout Date to Refugees' Fate |
| April 23 - A Year After Escort Policy Was Launched Jury Is Still Out on How Well It Works |
| April 23 - House Panel Moving to Plug Loopholes That Permitted U.S. Arms Sales to Iran |
| April 23 - House Panels Draft South Africa Sanctions Bill |
| April 23 - Israeli-U.S. Agreement Signed |
| April 23 - New Gulf Incident Rekindles an Old Debate |
| April 23 - Opposition to Saudi Deal: Administration Unveils Mideast Arms Sales |
| April 23 - Persian Gulf and Congress: A Chronology |
| April 23 - Sandinistas Call Aid 'Illegal': Contra Food Shipments Start As Talks Produce Few Results |
| April 30 - FOREIGN POLICY NOTES Panel Approves Independence for Palau |
| April 30 - FOREIGN POLICY NOTES World Court Rules on PLO Mission |
| April 30 - Four Issues Remain to Be Resolved: INF Treaty Debate Is Put Off Until Mid-May |
| April 30 - Hill Opposition May Be Eased: Saudi Plan to Sign Nuclear Pact Revives Proposal for Arms Sale |
| April 30 - Need for Quick Exit From Panama Downplayed: U.S. Seeking New Ways to Ease Noriega Out |
| April 30 - Partisan Fights Derail Two Africa Measures |
| April 30 - Security Concerns vs. a Fair Trial: Access to Secret Papers Snarls Iran-Contra Case |
| April 30 - U.S. Escorting Policy at Issue: Clock Set for Senate Vote on Gulf, War Powers |
| April 30 - Wright Action Spares Mexico Rebuke on Drugs |
| May 7 - Avoiding Debate Over 'Nickels': Absence of Partisan Bickering Marks Foreign-Aid Funding Bill |
| May 7 - Backers Seek GOP Support for South Africa Bill |
| May 7 - Both Sides Warned Against Renewed Fighting: Wright Rejects Sandinista Calls For Delays in Contra Food Aid |
| May 7 - Drug Sanctions Voted by House Banking Panel |
| May 7 - Panel Seeks Sanctions on Ethiopia |
| May 7 - Patience With Panama Policy Fading on Hill |
| May 14 - Administration Threatens a Veto: House Panel Backs Covert-Action Notice Bill |
| May 14 - Chinese Missile Deal Raised Alarm: Complaints Fail to Thwart New Saudi Arms Sale |
| May 14 - Consensus Breathes Life Into Aid Spending Bill |
| May 14 - Diplomats Pave Way for Action on INF Treaty |
| May 14 - FOREIGN POLICY NOTES: Parliamentary Tactic Revives Foreign Aid Bill |
| May 14 - FOREIGN POLICY NOTES: South Africa Sanctions Bill Introduced in Senate |
| May 14 - Panel Limits New Aid for Development Banks |
| May 21 - Big Role for China: Arms Merchant |
| May 21 - Funding for New Spy Satellites: Intelligence Bill Clears Arms Control Hurdle |
| May 21 - May Seek to Use Hill Testimony Against Them: Walsh Turns Tables on Iran-Contra Defendants |
| May 21 - Reagan, Democrats Renew Contra-Aid Disputes |
| May 21 - Slow Progress in House: South Africa Sanctions Bill Faces Gantlet of Committees |
| May 21 - Surprise: A Quick Foreign-Aid Bill |
| May 21 - With Summit Near, Senate Debates INF Treaty |
| May 28 - A Protest Over Palestinian Dispute |
| May 28 - Foreign Aid Spending (chart) |
| May 28 - Foreign Policy/Defense Judge Gesell Blasts Iran-Contra Committees |
| May 28 - House Passes Foreign Aid Spending Measure |
| May 28 - House Votes to Tighten Arms-Sale Law |
| May 28 - Intelligence Authorization Bill Passed: House Defeats GOP Attempt To Resume Contra Arms Aid |
| May 28 - Just in Time for Moscow Summit: Senate Votes 93-5 to Approve Ratification of the INF Treaty |
| May 28 - Panamanian Rejects 'Golden Parachute': U.S. Thwarted in Effort to Remove Noriega |
| May 28 - U.S.-Canada Trade Recommendations: Highlights |
| June 4 - FOREIGN POLICY NOTES: An Aid Carrot for Panama |
| June 4 - FOREIGN POLICY NOTES: And a New Bid for Contra Funds |
| June 4 - Fourth Summit: Joint Document Underlines Progress, Good Relations |
| June 4 - GOP 'Killer Amendment' Added: South Africa Sanctions Bill Approved by Banking Panel |
| June 4 - Moscow Summit: Upbeat Tone, Limited Results |
| June 4 - Reagan Gives Press Conference in Moscow |
| June 11 - Concern Over Cuban Troops: Panels Add Exemption to Pretoria Sanctions Bill |
| June 11 - New Bid to Invoke War Powers Fails |
| June 11 - Split Trials Could Be Blow to Iran-Contra Case |
| June 11 - Taking Care of an Unwanted Export |
| June 11 - Timetable in Doubt: Collapse of Talks in Managua Spurs Hill Talk of Contra Aid |
| June 18 - Ban on Intelligence-Sharing: Arms Services Panel Votes Anti-Apartheid Bill |
| June 18 - Commerce, Justice, State Funding (chart) |
| June 18 - Contras Find Little Enthusiasm for New Aid |
| June 18 - Hill Notified of Kuwait Arms Sale |
| June 18 - House Passes Incomplete Bill: Commerce, Justice, State Funding Bill Advances |
| June 18 - Judge Lifts a Barrier to North Trial |
| June 18 - Nominations Logjam Partially Broken |
| June 25 - Development Bank Funds: Cloudy Prospects |
| June 25 - GOP Fails to Expand President's Discretion: House Foreign Affairs Panel Approves Covert-Action Bill |
| June 25 - Hill Members Raise Questions Over Sale of Warplanes to Kuwait |
| June 25 - Judge Lets Iran-Contra Case Proceed |
| June 25 - Salvador-Aid Issue Re-Emerges in Senate Panel |
| June 25 - Shultz to Visit Central America |
| July 2 - Angolan Gets Sympathy, Little Fresh Support |
| July 2 - Court Blocks PLO Office Closing |
| July 2 - Difficult Road Ahead: House Banking Panel OKs World Bank Funds |
| July 2 - U.S. to Fund New Missile for Israel |
| July 9 - Congress Could 'Disapprove' the List: House Edges Closer to Easing Base Closings |
| July 9 - Controversial Issues Sidestepped: Senate Easily Passes Foreign Aid Funding Bill |
| July 9 - Hill Opposition to Kuwait Arms Sale Grows |
| July 9 - Multinational Sanctions Encouraged: House Panel OKs U.S.-South Africa Trade Ban |
| July 9 - Plane Incident Raises Questions on Gulf Policy |
| July 9 - Text of Reagan's Letter to Congress |
| July 16 - Ambassadorial Nominations Advance |
| July 16 - Hill Opposition Could Be Intense: Reagan May Bypass Congress On Iran Air Compensation |
| July 16 - Hill Sets Stage for Contra-Aid Debate |
| July 16 - Reagan to Press Arms Sales to Kuwait |
| July 23 - ACLU Comes to North's Defense |
| July 23 - Lines Forming for Another Contra-Aid Battle |
| July 23 - Stinger Sale Proposed for Greece |
| July 23 - U.S. Support for Angola Rebels to Continue |
| July 30 - Amendments Held for Second Measure: House OKs 'Dire Emergency' Supplemental Bill |
| July 30 - Appropriations Set at $15 Billion: Commerce, Justice, State Funding Approved |
| July 30 - Contra Aid Entangled in U.S., Regional Politics |
| July 30 - Covert Action Plan Against Noriega: When a Secret Is Not a Secret, Hackles Are Raised on the Hill |
| July 30 - Panel Weighs Options to Enforce North Subpoena |
| July 30 - Troubled Future in Senate: Ways and Means Backs Apartheid Sanctions Bill |
| August 6 - 'Dire' Spending Bill Stalled by Contra-Aid Fight |
| August 6 - A Hitch Remains in the Senate: Administration, House Agree On Kuwait Arms Compromise |
| August 6 - Election-Year Pressure on South Africa: In Partisan Drama, Sanctions Bill Waits in Wings |
| August 6 - No Iran-Contra Trial Before Elections |
| August 6 - Sanctions Directed at Foreign Oil Giants Set off International, Regional Conflicts |
| August 6 - White House, Democrats Near Contra-Aid Deal |
| August 13 - Congress Clears 'Dire' Fiscal 1988 Spending Bill |
| August 13 - Contra Aid: Democratic Muscle, Partisan Fallout |
| August 13 - On Burden-Sharing, a Softening of the Blow |
| August 13 - Senate Resistance Strong: Sanctions Against South Africa Passed by Partisan House Vote |
| August 13 - Senate Sets Stage to Renew Defense Debate |
| August 13 - The Contra Package: What's in It |
| August 20 - Action on One Envoy Frees Up Several Others |
| August 20 - Intelligence Bill Endorses New Spy Satellites |
| August 27 - Members Hit China for Denying Visa to Rose |
| August 27 - Move by Hanoi Upsets Efforts to Improve Ties |
| September 3 - 100th Congress Will Finish on a Partisan Note |
| September 3 - Effort to Close PLO Office Thwarted |
| September 3 - Vietnam to Resume MIA Searches |
| September 10 - Age-Old Rivalries Defy Easy Diplomacy |
| September 10 - Anti-Apartheid Bill Heads for a Partisan Fate |
| September 10 - FOREIGN POLICY NOTES: Pullback on Contra Aid And A Rebuke of Iraq |
| September 10 - June Listings Reflect Interest In South Africa Sanctions Bill |
| September 10 - Rebel Conflicts Pose Only Part of Problem |
| September 10 - Threats of Terrorism Elude an Easy Answer |
| September 10 - Wary Warming Trend Masks Much Conflict |
| September 17 - 'Humanitarian,' Not Military, Assistance: Contra Talks May Revive as Aid Package Nears |
| September 17 - Ambassadorial Nominations Languish |
| September 17 - Iraq Sanctions Bill Puts Administration in a Bind |
| September 17 - Oil-Leasing Provision Dropped: Anti-Apartheid Bill Weakened In Bid to Boost Senate Support |
| September 17 - Panel Insists on Seeing North's Notebooks |
| September 17 - Six Employees Will Be Punished: FBI Chief Laments 'Mistakes' in CISPES Probe |
| September 17 - Source of the Money Still in Doubt: Reagan, in Shift, Supports Full Funding of U.N. |
| September 24 - Conferees Reach Agreement: Funding OK'd For Commerce, Justice, State |
| September 24 - Could Mean First Bill Since 1981: Foreign Aid Conferees Agree After All-Night Talks |
| September 24 - Foreign Policy Notes: Arms-Sale Controls Pushed |
| September 24 - Foreign Policy Notes: Foreign Aid off OPIC Bill |
| September 24 - Foreign Policy Notes: Intelligence Bill, Authorizing New Spy Satellites, Is Cleared |
| September 24 - Hill Moves Forward on World Bank Funding |
| September 24 - Less Sweeping Than Senate Version: House Panels Advance Bill Imposing Sanctions on Iraq |
| September 24 - Peace Talks Stall Again |
| September 24 - State Department Weighing Options: Study Recommends Razing Bug-Laden Embassy |
| September 24 - Wright at Center of Nicaragua Policy Storm |
| September 24 - Wright's Nicaragua Diplomacy |
| October 1 - A Tug-of-War Over Punishing Kenya |
| October 1 - Differences On Iraq Sanctions Complicate Foreign Aid Bill |
| October 1 - Fight Over Legal Services: Congress Clears Spending Bill For Commerce, Justice, State |
| October 1 - Foreign Aid Appropriations, Fiscal 1989 (chart) |
| October 1 - Funding Breakdown for Commerce/Justice/State (chart) |
| October 1 - Helms Blocks Bill on Chilean Election |
| October 1 - Included in Defense Spending Bill: Contra 'Humanitarian' Aid Advances Quietly |
| October 1 - Jousting Over Congressional Prerogatives |
| October 1 - Rare Aid Funding Bill Comes Down to the Wire |
| October 1 - Using Foreign Aid to Settle Private Claims |
| October 8 - 11th-Hour Lobbying Rescued Foreign Aid Bill |
| October 8 - Negotiations Continue on Iraq Sanctions |
| October 8 - Panel Approves Move to Fund United Nations |
| October 8 - Senate Action in Doubt: House Votes to Facilitate Palau Independence |
| October 8 - Way Cleared for New Wright Probe |
| October 8 - White House Reticent on the Idea: Contra Backers Eyeing Another Try for Aid |
| October 15 - Foreign Policy Notes: Hill Moving on Iraq Sanctions |
| October 15 - Legislative Impact of Iran-Contra Affair Fades |
| October 15 - Senate Passes Palau Independence Bill |
| October 22 - Bases: Reagan Sends a Message to Aquino |
| October 22 - Congress Denounces Nicaraguan Government |
| October 22 - Foreign Policy Notes: Iraq Sanctions, Arms Sale Curb Folded Into Multipurpose Bill |
| October 22 - Philippine Pact Gives U.S. Breather on Key Bases |
| October 29 - Foreign Policy Notes: Reagan Supports Demolition Of Bugged Moscow Embassy |
| October 29 - Hill Support for Guerrillas in Angola Helps Kill Funds for U.N. Peacekeepers |
| October 29 - Iraq Sanctions Yield to Special Interests in Senate |
| October 29 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Foreign Policy |
| October 29 - Palau Compromise Reached, but not Enacted |
| November 5 - Contra Policy: Support Fades, Dilemma Lingers |
| November 19 - Gorbachev to Meet With Reagan, Bush |
| November 26 - End-of-Session Tempest Leaves Palau Twisting |
| November 26 - Only Reagan Can Stop the Proceedings: Judge Won't Derail North's Iran-Contra Trial |
| December 3 - Secrecy Spat Jeopardizes Iran-Contra Trial |
| December 10 - Gorbachev Initiative Challenges Bush, NATO |
| December 10 - Highlights of Soviet Leader Gorbachev's Plans, Proposals |
| December 10 - NATO, Warsaw Pact Conventional Force Balance (chart) |
| December 10 - U.S., Rebels Cool to Afghan Plan |
| December 17 - Bush Inherits Political Opportunities, Risks |
| December 17 - Foreign Aid: Tough Battles Loom Over Budget Cuts |
| December 17 - Iran-Contra Trial Draws Nearer: Judge Deals North Setback on Secret Papers |
| December 17 - Palestine Policy: What Was Said |
| December 17 - Reagan Doctrine: How Far Will Bush Take Aid to 'Freedom Fighters'? |
| December 17 - U.S., PLO Move to Jump-Start Peace Process |
| December 24 - Date Set for North Conspiracy Trial |
| December 24 - Legislative Outlook: Foreign Policy |
| December 24 - White House Text: A Reagan Farewell Address: Reviews U.S. Foreign Policy |
