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WASHINGTON--A bitterly divided House voted Wednesday to cut off U.S. military support for Nicaragua's contra rebels, rejecting President Reagan's aid request in the hope of fortifying the Central American peace process...
...contra spokeswoman in Miami termed the vote "a serious setback in our struggle for freedom and democracy...
...vote does not mean we will stop," said Marta Sacasa, spokeswoman for the Nicaraguan Resistance, the umbrella group known as the contras. She said contra leaders would "reassess possible strategies" but added, "there's no way a U.S. vote is going to change our determination or will. We will just have to do without...
...Today's vote is the end of a chapter," said House Majority Whip Tony Coelho (D.-Calif.). "The contra policy is the past. Now we can deploy America's greatest strengths, from aid and trade to diplomacy, to stoke the flames of liberty and secure the future for Central America...
...board's second meeting, members discussed existing standards of free speech at Harvard and how the group might have handled several past cases including a disrupted speech by former contra leader Adolfo Calero at the Law School in October and a blockade of a South African diplomat in Lowell House in the spring...