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Daniel Inouye, call your office.


Daniel Inouye Daniel Ken Inouye (born September 7 1924) is a recipient of the Medal of Honor and currently serves as the senior United States Senator from Hawaii. He has been a senator for over forty years, since 1963, a distinction that few senators have achieved, and is currently the third , Call Your Office

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Daily newspaper of national and international news and features, published Monday through Friday in Boston under the auspices of the Church of Christ, Scientist (see Christian Science).
 Quixote Center, a Catholic relief agency, has channeled almost $40 million in supplies and labor to Communist Nicaragua over the past year. The Center hopes to collect another $60 million this fall to match the $100 million in current congressional allocations for the Contras. According to a report just issued by the Capital Research Center, a group that acts as watchdog over the non-profit sector The nonprofit sector, also called the third sector, civic sector or voluntary sector, is a third area of an economy, distinct from the public sector and the private sector. It is made up of all of the non-profit organizations in the economy. , Quixote "has been shipping supplies to Nicaragua since late 1983 and now acts as a clearinghouse for tracking donations sent to Nicaragua by more than five hundred private groups across the country.'

More than five hundred? Are these groups perhaps tax-exempt, or, as the liberals would say, "tax-subsidized'? Does the point merit investigation--perhaps by the IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws. , as Senator Howard Metzenbaum Howard Morton Metzenbaum (born June 4 1917) is an American left-wing politician who served for almost 20 years as a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate (1974, 1976–1995).  has demanded in the case of several non-profits that have allegedly raised money for the Contras?

Or perhaps a congressional investigation? Just a month ago, members of the Iran-Contra congressional committee were vociferously pointing out that though they disagreed with Ollie North's circumvention of the foreign-policy process, they absolutely, really and truly, shared his goal of stopping Communism in Central America. Well, boys, here's your chance: five hundred groups not only making foreign policy on their own but acting in collusion with sworn enemies of the United States. Worth a couple of hearings?
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Title Annotation:Quixote Center channels aid to Nicaragua
Publication:National Review
Date:Sep 25, 1987
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