Word: aid
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...five signatories to the Guatemala accord, Honduras is rapidly emerging as the least enthusiastic. Last week Honduran President Jose Azcona Hoyo told visiting Congressman Kemp that he thought the peace accord did not preclude continued U.S. aid to the contras. "Hondurans would really like a regional peace agreement, but they also want to maintain good relations with the U.S., and right now the two seem mutually exclusive," says a Western diplomat in Tegucigalpa. "So they are hanging on to the U.S. trapeze, too frightened to let go and try to catch the Central American trapeze...
...weeks ago, Ortega hotly debated with him in public for an hour. Moreover, a letter that Dole had written demanding the release of two jailed opposition leaders was published in the Sandinista press. Last week the two activists were turned over to Senator Harkin, a Democratic foe of contra aid, one week before their month-long jail terms were to expire...
...Sandinistas may yet make a mess of things, a talent for which they have demonstrated a remarkable flair. Just four days after a 1985 congressional vote against aid to the contras, for example, Ortega visited Moscow. His trip was deftly exploited by aid proponents two months later to obtain $27 million in humanitarian funds. Ortega seemed poised on the verge of self-destruction again last week as he coolly announced that on Nov. 7, the day the cease-fire is scheduled to begin, he will be in Moscow celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Russian Revolution...
...failed air raid marked a turning point in France's role in the conflict, which has raged over Libyan claims to the reputedly uranium-rich Aozou Strip in northern Chad. While France maintains a 1,300-troop garrison in Chad and has provided some $90 million in military aid this year to its former colony, the French have resisted being drawn deeper into the conflict. Defense Minister Andre Giraud expressed "deepest regrets" over the stepped-up fighting, though he declared that France will continue to defend the Chadian capital from attack. Premier Jacques Chirac last week repeated calls...
...Libyans," said a U.S. official. State Department Spokesman Charles Redman asserted that "Libya has illegally occupied Chad for a number of years" and is believed to have up to 5,000 troops in the country, mostly in the Aozou Strip. The Reagan Administration has provided $33 million in military aid to Chad over the past ten months and last week was considering a new request for antiaircraft Stinger missiles. The White House hopes that Libya's losses in the war will help lead to a popular uprising against Gaddafi. But though the Libyan leader acknowledged in a speech two weeks...