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...sessions with White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett, including a quiet dinner late in the week to discuss his role as National Security Adviser in the events. On Capitol Hill, Correspondents Evan Thomas and Christopher Redman covered the House's passage of the bill to cut off funds for covert operations in Nicaragua. Redman also detailed the debate over the CIA'S role in Central America. The story even spread into a Washington federal courtroom, where Justice Department Correspondent David Jackson reported on an American businessman who is suing the U.S. for occupying part of his Honduran ranch...
Symbolically, it may have been. In practical terms, the 228-to-195 House vote Thursday night to shut off covert U.S. aid to the contra guerrillas who are fighting the Marxist government of Nicaragua will have no immediate effect. The Republican-controlled Senate almost certainly will not approve a similar bill. So the contras' campaign will continue?though whether the Administration can persuade Congress to renew U.S. support for the guerrilla struggle, much less double it as President Reagan wants to do in the new fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, is now in doubt...
...both coasts of Nicaragua, and as many as 3,000 to 4,000 American troops will participate at any one time in war games in neighboring Honduras. As the vote drew near, Congress was further roiled by leaks appearing in the press that the Administration planned to expand its covert actions against Nicaragua and possibly to increase the number and activities of U.S. military advisers in El Salvador. All this contributed to a public impression that the Administration is now pushing toward a military solution to the threat of spreading Communist influence in Central America, at the risk of involving...
...covert" U.S. support of the contras operating in Nicaragua involves a large logistics and communications operation in Honduras directed by CIA experts. They use unmarked supply planes as well as surveillance aircraft...
...court has also thrown into confusion the pending bills that seek to limit the Administration's "covert" aid to antigovernment guerrillas fighting in Nicaragua. For months Congressmen and White House aides had been crafting compromise legislation that would have consisted of little beyond a legislative veto provision, giving Congress the right to cut off such...