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Shultz for the Defense

''American foreign policy. . . is going extremely well"

With the withdrawal of U.S. Marines under way in Lebanon, the political heat on the Administration's policy there was easing a bit on Capitol Hill. But it was rising again on U.S. military aid to the government of El Salvador and to the antigovernment rebels in Nicaragua. Secretary of State George Shultz last week defended the Administration before two Senate committees and in a speech on human rights. Said he: "American foreign policy, taken around the world, is going extremely well."

Shultz conceded to the Senate...

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