Word: covert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lieut. Commander Albert Schaufelberger in the Salvadoran capital of San Salvador. But there is growing anxiety among other members of Congress that they may be blamed if Central America goes Communist. Before last week's assassination of Commander Schaufelberger, the House Intelligence Committee voted to cut off U.S. covert aid to the estimated 7,000 contras in Nicaragua. However, moderate Democrats in the House Foreign Affairs Committee, realizing that a straight cutoff would never get by the Senate or the President, are trying to work out a compromise...
Harsh facts and hard choices for Central America [May 9]. More dollars, military advisers, covert activities. It is all so familiar. Is this what President Reagan calls our moral duty? Our only obligation to that region is to send food and other essentials for economic growth...
...time the delegates in Vienna spend scrutinizing Israel's role in this trade would be far better spent in checking the U.N.'s own figures. There, they will find that the nations that criticize South Africa the loudest are often those that profit most from covert trade with her. Statistics from the International Monetary Fund reveal that Israel is ranked as South Africa's 20th largest trading partner, accounting for 4 percent of her imports and exports. On the other hand, Black Africa, which officially maintains a total boycott of South Africa, has economy links with the apartheid regime amounting...
Although the House tied the aid up in a cat's-cradle of conditions, the Administration kept open its options on the future of covert operations in Nicaragua and impressed on Congress a fresh spirit of bipartisanship. "There is a new willingness to look at the problem together," said one State Department official. That may be because both sides face political peril. Republicans run the risk of being blamed for increased U.S. involvement in the murky politics of Central America, Democrats of being blamed for a rebel victory if they block aid to the Salvadoran government...
...good faith and without preconditions" with the Cuban-backed rebels. And, to demonstrate its unhappiness, the Committee voted to cut in half Reagan's original request of $136 million in fiscal 1983 funding for E1 Salvador. Similarly, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee approved a bill to eliminate all "covert" aid to insurgents in Nicaragua and to replace it with $30 million this year and $50 million next year in "overt...