 January 6 - Cold War Barricades Remain |
| January 6 - Faith, Politics and the Grant Process |
| January 6 - Grants to Some Israeli Schools Raise 'Pork-Barrel' Concerns |
| January 6 - Nunn: Americans Should be Proud |
| January 6 - Rebuilding Broken Economy Will Strain Purse Strings |
| January 6 - Stalemates of Last Decade Haunt Agenda for 1990: Defense and Foreign Policy |
| January 6 - Trade and Investment Barriers |
| January 6 - U.S. Reactions to Surrender Of Panama's Noriega |
| January 13 - Congress Anxious for Aquino To Defuse Political Woes |
| January 13 - Help for Starving Angola Gives Congress Food for Thought |
| January 13 - Jury Out on El Salvador |
| January 13 - PANAMA: Don't Get Your Hopes Up, U.S. Tells New Leaders |
| January 13 - ROUNDTABLE: The Noriega Trial And Robert Taft |
| January 20 - Dole Takes on Israeli Lobby, Proposes Cutting U.S. Aid |
| January 20 - Fight Over Chinese Students First on Congress' Agenda |
| January 20 - Most Aid Earmarked |
| January 20 - SECTION NOTES: INS Revises Guidelines For Soviet Jews |
| January 20 - Special Treatment for Israel |
| January 27 - Bush Backs Making the EPA A Cabinet-Level Agency |
| January 27 - Bush Praises Action on Veto, Announces Panama Plan |
| January 27 - Bush Still Backs Gorbachev |
| January 27 - Bush's $10.6 Billion Strategy |
| January 27 - Conservatives Poised To Fight Efforts To Slash Defense |
| January 27 - IRAN-CONTRA: Secord Sentenced To Probation |
| January 27 - LAW/JUDICIARY: GOP Senators Save Bush In China Veto Test |
| January 27 - Legislative Proposals |
| January 27 - PANAMA: Congress May Add Conditions To Bush's Request for Aid |
| January 27 - The Right's Agenda: Highlights |
| February 3 - Bush Proposes New Cuts In U.S.-Soviet Forces |
| February 3 - Eastern Europe Aid Plans: Round 2 |
| February 3 - IMMIGRATION: Hill Eases Alien Exclusions Under McCarthy-Era Law |
| February 3 - In the Wings: Panama Aid |
| February 3 - LAW/JUDICIARY: Poindexter May Get Reagan Diaries |
| February 3 - NOMINATIONS: Bush Retreats On Silverman |
| February 3 - STATE DEPARTMENT: After Panels Settle Turf War, Agencies' Funding Cleared |
| February 3 - With Little Maneuvering Room, Budget Holds Few Surprises |
| February 10 - 'Security Aid' Totals, Fiscal 1989-91 (chart) |
| February 10 - Congress Rushes to Approve Emergency Aid Package |
| February 10 - East Bloc Political Upheaval Shakes U.S. Strategies |
| February 10 - EASTERN EUROPE: Republicans Scramble To Meet Democrats' Aid Challenge |
| February 10 - FOREIGN AID: Byrd Adds His Weight to Call For Closer Look at Funding |
| February 10 - Not So 'Urgent' Aid |
| February 10 - Pretoria's Reforms Take Sting Out of New Sanctions Drive |
| February 10 - SECTION NOTES: Testimony Heard On CBI Bills |
| February 10 - SECTION NOTES: U.S. Makes Offer On IMF Increase |
| February 10 - Whatever the Result, Election Won't Be Final Chapter |
| February 17 - 'The Critics . . . on the Hill Can't Have It Both Ways' |
| February 17 - A Look at Foreign Systems |
| February 17 - Anti-Narcotics Alliance Urged At Colombia 'Drug Summit' |
| February 17 - Bush Scores Diplomatic Gain At Summit in Colombia |
| February 17 - Concessions Step Up Tempo Toward New Agreements |
| February 17 - Congress Gearing Up To Give Housing Aid to Israel |
| February 17 - Hurtling Toward German Unity |
| February 17 - SECTION NOTES: Hill Members Urge Salvador To Solve Rights Cases |
| February 17 - SECTION NOTES: More Than Mandela's Release Needed To Lift Sanctions |
| February 24 - Aid Plans for Eastern Europe |
| February 24 - An Intellectual's Lessons |
| February 24 - ARMENIANS: Once-Bland Commemorative Proves To Be Hot Potato |
| February 24 - Bush Throws Down the Gauntlet On Provisions He Opposes |
| February 24 - Havel Makes Appeal for Help But Not in the Usual Form |
| February 24 - Hill Divided Over Demolition Of Bugged Moscow Facility |
| February 24 - Moscow Embassy Options |
| February 24 - SECTION NOTES: Reagan Testimony Released In Iran-Contra Case |
| February 24 - Sweeping Changes Abroad Confound U.S. Policy |
| February 24 - TRADE: Administration Eases Stand On High-Tech Exports |
| March 3 - ARMENIANS: Dole Resolution Blocked Anew |
| March 3 - DRUGS: Cooperation With Interdiction In the Eye of the Beholder |
| March 3 - Eastern Europe Bank |
| March 3 - Hill Readying To Raid Pentagon For 'Emerging Democracies' |
| March 3 - In Washington, the Spin Patrol |
| March 3 - Power of the Ballot Box Gives U.S. Policy a Fresh Start |
| March 3 - Sensitive Issue: Germany's Border |
| March 10 - Battle Over Aid, Round Two: Issues of Scope, Control |
| March 10 - EL SALVADOR: New Information In Murder Case |
| March 10 - Kohl Retreats on Border |
| March 10 - Kohl Retreats on Border |
| March 10 - PALAU: As Compact Comes Up Short, Islands in Holding Pattern |
| March 10 - PANAMA AND NICARAGUA: Pace of Aid Packages Slows, With Cuts in Prospect |
| March 10 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush, Kaifu Meet To Discuss U.S.-Japan Relationship |
| March 17 - NICARAGUA: Bush's $300 Million in Aid Faces Complications |
| March 17 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush Seeks $800 Million Aid For Nicaragua, Panama |
| March 17 - THIRD WORLD DEBT: Obey Links World Bank Funds To China, Debt Policies By John R. Cranford |
| March 24 - A Baltic Balancing Act |
| March 24 - Doing Business With Poland |
| March 24 - EMBASSIES: Moscow Facility: Another Round |
| March 24 - Is That Perfectly Clear? |
| March 24 - ISRAEL: Bush Team Finds Wiggle Room On Housing Subsidy Issue |
| March 24 - Panama-Nicaragua Money Bill Tangled in Other Issues |
| March 24 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush Again Urges Congress To Approve Aid Package |
| March 31 - Funds for Panama, Nicaragua Move Down Hill Runway |
| March 31 - Looking for Salvador Deal |
| March 31 - Upping the Ante for Eastern Europe |
| April 7 - Farm Bill Dilemma Hits Home: Not Enough To Go Around |
| April 7 - House Gives Nod to Increase In Fiscal 1990 Spending |
| April 7 - Lithuanian Events Highlight U.S. Stake in Gorbachev |
| April 7 - NEWS BRIEFING: U.S. and Japan Agree on a Plan To Improve Trade Imbalance |
| April 7 - Politics, Salvador Issue Delay Panama-Nicaragua Funds |
| April 7 - Salvador: 2 Sets of Talks |
| April 7 - SECTION NOTES: Administration Testifies On Foreign Bank Rules |
| April 7 - SECTION NOTES: Scientific Interchange Program Approved |
| April 7 - THE SUPERPOWERS: Summit Timetable Is Speeded Up |
| April 14 - FOR THE RECORD Bush: Talks With Mulroney 'Extremely Helpful' |
| April 14 - SECTION NOTES: Countries Reach Terms On East Europe Bank |
| April 14 - SECTION NOTES: U.S., Czechoslovakia Sign Trade Pact |
| April 21 - Dole Dust-up Over Jerusalem Touches Sensitive Nerve |
| April 21 - Political Impact of Bush's Words Belies Strength of U.S.-Israel Ties |
| April 28 - Boosters of Overseas Programs Get a Hand in House Budget |
| April 28 - FOREIGN AID: Fascell Panel Votes To Slash Salvador Arms Assistance |
| April 28 - Hill Members Renew Attempts To Impose Trade Sanctions |
| April 28 - ISRAEL: House Votes Jerusalem Measure With Some Notable Dissents |
| April 28 - Retooling Jackson-Vanik |
| April 28 - TRADE: Senate Backs Caribbean Bill, Declines To Broaden Scope |
| May 5 - Carrots-and-Sticks Policy Yields Possible Truce on the Hill |
| May 5 - Hill Group Paints Dark Picture Of Rights in El Salvador |
| May 5 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Foreign Policy Dominates Session With Reporters |
| May 5 - Warning on Soviet Trade |
| May 12 - EL SALVADOR: House Action on Arms Aid Cut Deferred for Negotiations |
| May 19 - CHEMICAL WEAPONS: Senate Approves Sanctions Bill |
| May 19 - Collapse of Hill Negotiations Sets Stage for Aid Fight |
| May 19 - Deal Near on Supplemental As House Lards the Bill |
| May 19 - Last Effort at U.S.-Soviet Trade Pact Failed To Win Over a Wary Congress |
| May 19 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Budget Summit No. 1 Concern In Session With Reporters |
| May 26 - A Pork-Heavy Supplemental Is Belatedly Sent to Bush |
| May 26 - Bush Plays Political Defense As Gorbachev Visit Nears |
| May 26 - House Fires a Warning Shot Over El Salvador Policy |
| May 26 - In the Bag: Chemical Weapons Pact |
| May 26 - NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush Defends China Decision In Meeting With Reporters |
| May 26 - NEWS CONFERENCE: Democratic Senators Object To Bush's China Decision |
| May 26 - START Negotiations: A Scoresheet On Where the Superpowers Stand |
| May 26 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Eyes Focus on Summit As Gorbachev Arrives |
| June 2 - Authorizer Sees Relevance Slip |
| June 2 - Bush and Gorbachev Sign Commercial Agreement |
| June 2 - Bush, Gorbachev Sign Accords On Arms Control and Trade |
| June 2 - Panama-Nicaragua Legislation Helps Other Nations, Too |
| June 2 - Strings Proposed For Foreign Aid |
| June 2 - Will Fear of Accidental Blasts Torpedo Activists' Plans? |
| June 9 - Approval Seen On Chemical Weapons |
| June 9 - Arms Control No Longer Ranks As the Be-All and End-All |
| June 9 - EMBASSY BREAKFAST: Gorbachev Holds Q and A Session With Congressional Leaders |
| June 9 - FOREIGN POLICY: U.S.-Greek Accord May Herald New Era in Bilateral Ties |
| June 9 - Hill Stance on Lithuania |
| June 9 - MFN: Not Just for Favorite Nations |
| June 9 - MIDDLE EAST: Congress Pressuring Bush To Suspend PLO Talks |
| June 9 - NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush, Gorbachev Able To Reach No Agreement on Baltics |
| June 9 - SECTION NOTES: Eastern Europe Bank Pact Signed |
| June 9 - SECTION NOTES: World Bank OKs Loan to China |
| June 9 - STATE DEPARTMENT: Moscow Embassy Wins Reprieve |
| June 9 - U.S.-Soviet Trade Accord: Highlights |
| June 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: Committee OKs Spending Bill |
| June 16 - CHEMICAL WEAPONS: Both Chambers To Get Pact |
| June 16 - Commerce, Justice, State Funding (chart) |
| June 16 - House Panel Acts To Shift Foreign Aid Priorities |
| June 23 - DEVELOPMENT: European Bank Bill Approved |
| June 23 - Exiles Talk of PACs and Power, Not Another Bay of Pigs |
| June 23 - Foreign Aid Appropriations Bill |
| June 23 - House in Line for a New Fight Over Family Planning Fund |
| June 23 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush Explains Decision To Suspend PLO Talks |
| June 23 - THE MIDDLE EAST: Bush's Breakoff of PLO Talks Is Hailed on Capitol Hill |
| June 23 - TRADE: Accord Elusive on Renewal Of MFN Status for China |
| June 23 - TV Marti Wins Its First Test in House But Broadcasters Fear Castro's Fury |
| June 23 - Voices of the Cuba Lobby |
| June 30 - Cambodia: Democrats Split |
| June 30 - Capitol Hill Reaffirms Support For Mandela and Sanctions |
| June 30 - DEVELOPMENT: Bush Urges Trade, Debt Relief In Plan for Latin America |
| June 30 - House Passes Spending Bill After Shifting Priorities |
| June 30 - IRAQ: Another Attempt At Sanctions |
| June 30 - PRESIDENTIAL SPEECH: Bush Urges Economic Change For Western Hemisphere |
| June 30 - SECTION NOTES: House Committee Approves East Europe Business Aid |
| June 30 - South African Time Line |
| July 14 - Bush Team Rethinking Aid As Hill Wariness Grows |
| July 14 - EL SALVADOR: Administration Unveils a Plan For Deal on Aid Conditions |
| July 14 - FOREIGN AID: Hill, Administration Moving To Assist Soviet Union |
| July 14 - NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush Calls Summit Agreements 'Positive and Unanimous' |
| July 14 - Senators Moving To Close Net On New Breed: Hired Spies |
| July 21 - Decision on Covert Aid Delayed As Panel Awaits Further Moves |
| July 21 - GOP Members Boycott Markup Of Technical Aid Bill |
| July 21 - IRAN-CONTRA: Judges Set Aside North Conviction |
| July 21 - IRAN-CONTRA: Notebook Entries Raise Questions |
| July 21 - KENYA: Lawmakers Taking a Hard Look At Aid in Light of Crackdown |
| July 21 - NUCLEAR WEAPONS: Senate Committee Takes Up Pair of '70s-Era Treaties |
| July 21 - Q and A SESSION: Bush Discusses Germany And Favorite Novels |
| July 28 - SECTION NOTES: Aid to Afghan Rebels Cut by Senate Panel |
| July 28 - SECTION NOTES: Senate and House Vote For Iraq Sanctions |
| August 4 - IRAQI INVASION: Congress Worried About Oil, Threat to Saudi Arabia |
| August 11 - AGRICULTURE: Gulf Crisis Shows Close Ties Between Food and Policy |
| August 11 - Crude Oil |
| August 11 - Crude Oil |
| August 11 - Gulf Standoff Highlights Need For Speed as Well as Power |
| August 11 - Iraq Hits a Raw Nerve in U.S. But Policy Changes Unlikely |
| August 11 - Iraq Map |
| August 11 - Members Back Sending Troops to Gulf But Worry About a Drawn-Out Crisis |
| August 11 - NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush Emphasizes Sanctions, Defense of Saudi Border |
| August 11 - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Bush Announces Deployment Of Forces to Saudi Arabia |
| August 18 - Action on Middle East Crisis Only a Matter of Time |
| August 18 - Defense and Foreign Policy: Major legislative actions of the 101st Congress |
| August 18 - PROVISIONS: Caribbean Basin Initiative |
| August 25 - Bush Stresses World Support For U.S. Force Deployment |
| August 25 - Covert Wars |
| August 25 - MILITARY STRATEGY: Reserve Call-Up Tests Strategy Long Trumpeted by Congress |
| August 25 - U.S. Love Affair With Covert Aid Has a Long but Controversial Past |
| August 25 - VFW ADDRESS: Bush Calls for Strong Defense To 'Maintain the Peace' |
| August 25 - Wars of Proxy Losing Favor As Cold War Tensions End |
| August 25 - Weighing Friends and Weapons |
| September 1 - Crisis May Spur Second Look At Defense Spending Cuts |
| September 1 - GULF CRISIS: Bush Briefs Members on Gulf Policy; Democratic Leaders Voice Support |
| September 1 - JOINT NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush, Mulroney Meet in Maine, Praise U.N. Action on Iraq |
| September 1 - Members Rally Around Flag As Bush Solicits Support |
| September 1 - PERSIAN GULF: Bush Asks Allies To Share Cost of Crisis Effort |
| September 8 - Hill Support Remains Firm, But Questions Surface |
| September 8 - SECTION NOTES: Korea Fighter-Jet Deal Goes to Capitol Hill |
| September 8 - SECTION NOTES: U.S. Talks Planned With Phnom Penh |
| September 15 - Administration Wins Victory On Funds for Secret Wars |
| September 15 - Bush's Plan To Waive Egypt Debt Raises Questions About Israel |
| September 15 - DEMOCRATIC RESPONSE: Gulf Policy Gets Full Support; Allies Asked To Share More |
| September 15 - JOINT NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush, Gorbachev Call On Iraq To Withdraw From Kuwait |
| September 15 - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Gulf Crisis an Opportunity For a 'New World Order' |
| September 22 - Gloves Come Off As Congress Swipes at Administration |
| September 22 - Who Will Dole Out Gulf Donations? |
| September 29 - A Smaller Saudi Arms Package |
| September 29 - De Klerk, Cristiani Receive Wary Welcome on the Hill |
| September 29 - KUWAIT CRISIS: Both Chambers Craft Resolutions Backing Bush's Gulf Policy |
| September 29 - Senate Ratifies Two Pacts Limiting Nuclear Tests |
| September 29 - TRADE: Committee Links China Status To Progress on Rights |
| October 6 - ARMS CONTROL: U.S., Soviets Agree on Aircraft, Weapons Limits in Europe |
| October 6 - Congress Cautiously Supports Bush's Past Gulf Actions |
| October 6 - Rethinking the Pakistan Alliance |
| October 6 - Senate Committee OKs Treaty Restoring German Self-Rule |
| October 6 - Subcommittee Focuses on Gulf In Making Funding Decisions |
| October 6 - TRADE: China MFN Bill Stalls in House |
| October 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Tough Policy Issues Go With Aid Bill |
| October 13 - Consultation on the Gulf Crisis Is Hit-or-Miss for Congress |
| October 13 - Intelligence Authorization Bill Facing House Floor Fights |
| October 13 - SECTION NOTES: Embargo Role Wins Funds For U.N. |
| October 13 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Approves Treaty on German Unification |
| October 13 - SECTION NOTES: Senators Move To Restrict Saudi Armes Sale |
| October 13 - SECTION NOTES: Shooting of Palestinians Puts Administration in Bind |
| October 13 - Talking With Congress |
| October 13 - The Nine Lives of the B-2 |
| October 20 - Authorization Deal Leaves B-2's Future Left Clouded |
| October 20 - Don't Intervene in Gulf Crisis, Baker Tells Committees |
| October 20 - FOREIGN AID: Effort To Amend Measure Seen as Sign to Israel |
| October 20 - House Votes To Put Conditions On Aid to Angolan Rebels |
| October 20 - SECTION NOTES: Black Caucus Condemns Japanese Official |
| October 20 - SECTION NOTES: Commerce, Justice, State Conference Accord |
| October 20 - SECTION NOTES: Committee Votes Debt Relief For Central, South America |
| October 20 - SECTION NOTES: President Signs Treaty On German Unity |
| October 20 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Pushes Through A Raft of Diplomats |
| October 20 - SECTION NOTES: Vietnam's Foreign Minister Invites a Visit |
| October 20 - Senate Approves Its Version Of Defense Spending Bill |
| October 20 - TRADE: House Passes Bills To Punish China for Tiananmen Action |
| October 20 - Use of Cambodia Aid Questioned |
| October 27 - Aid to El Salvador Slashed |
| October 27 - Egypt Wins, El Salvador Loses In Foreign Aid Funding Bill |
| October 27 - EMBASSIES: Moscow Facility Compromise |
| October 27 - GULF CRISIS: Members See Prospect of War Before the Year is Out |
| October 27 - New Openness Marks Debate On Intelligence Bill |
| October 27 - TRADE: Bill Aims to Improve the Quality Of Foreign Investment Data |
| November 3 - A Reluctant Congress Passes $15 Billion Assistance Bill |
| November 3 - Bush Reiterates Complaints Against Iraqi Brutality |
| November 3 - Foreign Aid Appropriations |
| November 3 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Defense and Foreign Policy |
| November 17 - Cold War Plans Could Be Tested In Hot Middle East Desert |
| November 17 - FOREIGN AID: Slip of the Pen Triggers Cut In Discretionary Programs |
| November 17 - Uncertain Congress Confronts President's Gulf Strategy |
| November 17 - What They're Saying |
| November 17 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Keating, Gulf Hearings Keep Senators in Town |
| November 24 - CHEMICAL WEAPONS: Bush's Sanctions Veto Snubs Foreign Relations Leaders |
| November 24 - Historic CFE Treaty Cuts Arms, Marks the End of Cold War |
| December 1 - Bush Quiets His Critics on Hill By Sending Baker to Iraq |
| December 1 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Saddam's Calculations: What If He's Right? |
| December 1 - IRAN/CONTRA: Another Round Goes to North |
| December 1 - IRAQ: Choice of Partners Questioned In Courtship of Support |
| December 1 - NEWS CONFERENCE: Bush Defends Gulf Buildup, Will Send Baker to Iraq |
| December 1 - Public Debate on Persian Gulf Poses Challenge for Members |
| December 1 - U.N. Resolution 678 |
| December 1 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Bush Aides Up Next In Gulf Debate |
| December 8 - Administration Makes Its Case But Fails To Sway Skeptics |
| December 8 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: The Imperative of Oil In the Persian Gulf |
| December 8 - INTELLIGENCE: Bush's Veto of Authorization Angers Panel Members |
| December 8 - IRAQ TESTIMONY: Cheney and Powell Testify To Armed Services Panel |
| December 8 - IRAQ TESTIMONY: CIA Director Webster Testifies On Effects of Sanctions |
| December 8 - Members Argue Suit Over War Powers |
| December 8 - MEMORANDUM OF DISAPPROVAL: Bush Cites 'Covert Action' In Intelligence Bill Veto |
| December 8 - PERSIAN GULF: Baker Says U.N. Resolution Is Saddam's Last Chance |
| December 8 - SUPERPOWER RELATIONS: Pressure To Help Feed Soviets May Lead to Trade Waiver |
| December 8 - What They're Saying |
| December 15 - Bush Lifts Soviet Credit Ban To Ease Food Shortage |
| December 15 - GATT Negotiations Fall Silent Amid Export Subsidy Woes |
| December 15 - GULF CRISIS: Bush, Shamir Muffle Differences To Keep Coalition Intact |
| December 15 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Trade Waiver, START Are Topics Of Session With Reporters |
| December 15 - SECTION NOTES: El Salvador Given Aid On Rushed Schedule |
| December 15 - Uniting To Dismantle Iraq's Military |
| December 22 - GULF CRISIS: Bush Faces War Standoff With Congress, Too |
| December 22 - SECTION NOTES: Baker Acknowledges Dispute Over Soviet Treaty Data |
| December 22 - SECTION NOTES: Fight Vowed To Keep Sanctions Against South Africa |
| December 22 - SECTION NOTES: Shevardnadze Resignation Shocks Washington |
| December 22 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Gulf Crisis May Mean No January Recess |
