Three years ago, a state company took control of paper distribution, and it refused to sell to El Nacional.
But aides to Mr. Clinton said the White House, which now has control of the papers, vetoed the transfer of over three-quarters of them.
The group allied with Brian P. Tierney, chief executive of the bankrupt Philadelphia newspapers, on Tuesday raised its bid to keep control of the papers to at least $86.5 million, from $66.5 million.
Sunday Telegraph editor Patience Wheatcroft and Telegraph Group editor-in-chief John Bryant appear to have won a power struggle with chief executive Murdoch MacLennan over who has editorial control of the papers.
The decision to open the 63 boxes, held in secret for nearly four decades, was reached on March 1 after years of efforts by library officials and others to persuade Robert Kennedy's widow, Ethel Kennedy, to give control of his papers to the library.
Mr. Tierney eventually lost control of the papers for business reasons, but when he did, the staffs and many people in Philadelphia hailed him as a hero, a man who rigorously oversaw the editorial independence of a newspaper he once fought with.
For years the church has helped subsidize the paper, but those funds have been cut as control of the paper has changed hands within Mr. Moon's family.
After he handed control of the paper to his son, Otis, in 1960, he became the chairman of Times Mirror, the paper's parent company.
But for its new executive editor, The Times tapped a Post alumnus, John F. Solomon, 41, who took control of the paper two weeks ago.
