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...Dole could not resist a shot at Bush on the Iran-Contra arms deal...
Appearing at a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, breakfast, Gephardt bragged about last Wednesday's House vote rejecting aid to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels...
...leading the fight against contra aid, Wright has made such a scenario all the more likely. With the contra threat eliminated, the Sandinistas are certainly no more likely to comply with the principles of the Arias plan and take serious steps towards democratization...
HOWEVER, equally troubling issues would have emerged had a mere four congressmen switched their nay votes against Reagan's $43 million contra request. The Sandinistas, upon learning of the vote to extend contra aid, surely would have denounced it as sabotaging the peace process. More aid would have allowed them to continue hiding behind the screen that the contra war, and not their own pathetic fiscal mismanagement, is to blame for the searing poverty and economic woes that afflict the Nicaraguan people. The delicate peace accord would have collapsed, and the United States would have been accused by the international...
...only way the United States can possibly hope to achieve peace in Central America and to bring about the stirrings of democracy in Nicaragua is through military, diplomatic, and economic pressure on the Sandinista regime--while still honoring the Arias Plan. This does not demand a continuation of the contra war, but a recognition that some military pressure exist to prod the Sandinistas into opening up their political system. While it is naive to expect the Sandinistas to agree to a coalition government including the rebels, it is certainly not unjustified to let the Nicaraguan people decide on its government...