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Friday, Oct. 25, 1985
Senate votes to limit Jordan arms sale
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled Senate, moving to sidetrack President Reagan's unpopular $1.9 billion arms sale to Jordan, voted 97-1 yesterday to ban the deal until March 1 unless King Hussein begins "direct and meaningful" peace talks with the Israelis.
GOP leaders said Reagan agreed reluctantly to accept the restriction, and several senators said his only alternative was to have his sale of sophisticated aircraft, air defense missiles and other weapons killed altogether.
But Hussein, speaking in an interview in Amman, said the Senate's action amounted to reneging by the United States. "One wouldn't like to use the word blackmail, but it's totally unacceptable." Hussein said. "Obviously it's not a way to deal with problems among friends.
"I have made it abundantly clear to our friends in Washington that unless the agreement between us and the United States is implemented in the manner agreed upon ... this (peace talks) is the last we would do to try to secure this particular package."
Opponents said Hussein should not receive U.S. arms as long as he was technically still in a state of war with Israel. Opponents also said the arms should be sold only if Hussein sat down for direct peace talks with the Jewish state.
other weapons, which Reagan proposed to bolster Jordan's defenses and reward Hussein for his movement toward joining the Middle East peace process.
chamber a few hours before the Senate vote.
The sale has drawn opposition from more than 270 House members, and legislation rejecting the sale was formally introduced in the House
The restriction was a hastily crafted attempt by GOP leaders to avert an outright foreign policy defeat for Reagan at a sensitive time in the Middle East peace process, and less than a month before his summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., who cast the sole vote against the measure, said he opposed it because it did not guarantee opponents a vote any time before March 1 in case they wanted to block the sale permanently.
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Duarte Duran exchanged for 118 rebels
There was no immediate word on the release of small-town mayors and municipal officials who were taken in a series of kidnappings that began last spring and were part of the exchange agreement.
from the rebel-held mountain village to a military school in San Salvador where they were freed. President Duarte and dozens of reporters greeted the civilian helicopter carrying Duarte Duran and her friend, Ana Cecilia Villeda Sosa, 23, when it landed.
The Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — President Jose Napoleon Duarte's daughter was freed by her guerrilla kidnappers yesterday in the first part of an exchange for 118 jailed and wounded rebels and political prisoners, the president's chief adviser said.
The government freed 22 political prisoners, who left Mariona prison on a bus, newsmen and the rebels' Radio Vencerosm said.
A group of wounded guerrillas who were to have safe passage out of the country were en route to San Salvador, a civilian source in the eastern province of Usuulfan said.
Julio Adolfo Rey Prended, the presidential adviser, told reporters that Duarte's daughter, Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, 35, was free.
Duarte Duran and a friend were kidnapped as they arrived for class at a private college Sept. 10. They were flown by helicopter yesterday
Rey Prendes said Duarte Duran's release was delayed for an hour and 45 minutes by the problem of the release of political prisoners in San Salvador. He did not elaborate.
Traveling with Monsignor Arturo Rivera y Damas, archbishop of San Salvador, the two women reached Santa Cruz Michapa. 18 miles from the capital. The helicopter's departure to San Salvador was then delayed by weather.
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