Word: contras
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...BEGINNING of the end for the Nicaraguan contras is in sight. On Wednesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a resolution, by a vote of 11-9, to prevent President Reagan from releasing the final $40 million of the $100 million contra aid package passed last year. Now it's time to capitalize on this victory and force a broad reversal of United States' Central American policy...
While the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's vote to cut off aid to the contras is a positive step, the resolution it passed, sponsored by Senators Christopher Dodd (D-CT) and Lowell Weicker (R-CT), nonetheless perpetuates a fundamental flaw in the United States' Central American policy. The Dodd-Weicker resolution would eliminate the contra's final $40 million aid installment, allocate money to remove the contras from Honduras, and contribute funds to the Contadora negotiation group. However, Dodd-Weicker would also reinstate $300 million in economic aid--with no human rights guidelines attached--to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras...
...future, the United States should refuse to send economic aid to Central America without strong human rights guidelines. The left must use its present strength not only to eliminate contra aid, but also to forge a new foreign policy in Central America. For the United States' current war in Central America involves not only the contras, but also the El Salvadoran, Honduran, and Guatemalan military...
...another development in the widening investigation into the Iran-Contra controversy, visiting Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said in an interview that Israel would provide "necessary information" to congressional committees conducting their own review...
Reagan himself said nothing during the day to reporters on the continuing investigation into the secret sale of arms to Iran and apparent diversion of profits to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. He has repeatedly defended the arms sales, but said he knew nothing of the alleged diversion of funds until Attorney General Edwin Meese III unearthed evidence in November of last year...