The World - News from Sept. 22, 1989

The Senate, heeding pleas to give El Salvador’s new president, Alfredo Cristiani, “a chance to succeed,” voted to boost aid to that country to $90 million for the coming year and remove restrictions on the money. Initially, on a 67-33 vote, the lawmakers stripped from a $14.4-billion foreign aid bill a Democratic-sponsored provision that would have cut the aid into three slices to be sent at four-month intervals and would have given Congress what amounted to veto power over the final installment. The Senate then approved, by an 82-12 vote, a substitute measure to increase the military aid from $85 million to $90 million. The Senate still has to complete work on the overall aid measure and work out differences with the House before sending the bill on to President Bush.