Congress: Essential Ingredient in a Sound Foreign Policy

1.Hearings, Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1985, Wednesday, 28 March 1984, 17. 2.Secretary of State George P. Shultz, as quoted in the New York Times, 3 April 1984, A6. At about the same time, President Reagan said the Lebanon debate had set back U.S. attempts to help negotiate a political solution in Lebanon, and that calls for the withdrawal of our Marines had "hindered the ability of our diplomats to negotiate, encouraged more intransigence from the Syrians and prolonged the violence." New York Times, 8 April 1984, sec. 4, 1.