Word: aid
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Ortega is not letting up as the Reagan Administration presses its current campaign. His proposal last week for an international commission that would include members of the U.S. political parties was coupled with an offer to ( permit the contras to continue receiving humanitarian aid from the U.S. and other foreign sources. By offering the U.S. a role as both guarantor and benefactor in postwar Nicaragua, Ortega seems to be playing to a pet theme of the President's that Reagan has applied to arms treaties with the Soviets: trust, but verify...
Ortega's shrewd diplomacy has already had considerable impact on the pending aid vote. Just a month ago, the Reagan Administration still planned to request $270 million in contra funds, much of it to be designated as military aid. Last week, however, Fitzwater conceded that the "$270 million figure has been overtaken by events." After several days of discussions, the White House decided to ask this week for less than $50 million, with only 10% earmarked for lethal purposes. But Capitol Hill buzzed with proposals to postpone the aid vote. Among those championing a delay was Senate Minority Leader Robert...
...head, they apparently worked. The note of compromise that Ortega struck in San Jose two weeks ago while meeting with the peace plan signatories quickly evaporated when he returned home. During a visit last week to Ciudad Dario, a town north of Managua, he warned that if contra aid was approved, the Nicaraguan government would gain a "free hand to take necessary measures to defend the sovereignty, self-determination and independence of our country." The implication was that even a single additional cent of aid would provoke the Sandinistas to withdraw some, if not all, of their concessions. The hard...
...Turkey has been sitting on a pending military treaty with the U.S. for nearly a year, refusing to ratify the document until it is satisfied that Congress will deliver the $913 million in military and economic aid promised by the Reagan Administration negotiators. The stalling tactic has so far not significantly impaired operations at more than two dozen U.S. military installations in the country...
...expire in 1991, U.S. and Filipino negotiators are planning to open talks in April on a possible renewal. The pact covers Clark Air Base and the Subic Bay Naval Base, the two largest American military installations outside the U.S. The Philippines depends heavily on the $266 million in U.S. aid and $164 million in local earnings that the bases provide each year. Even so, Philippines Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus has warned that any new treaty would require the U.S. to accept "new conditions" that would ban nuclear weapons from the bases. A similar stipulation by New Zealand prompted Washington...