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...adopted at the urging of the Administration, as a substitute for a far more restrictive measure proposed by Democrat Thomas Harkin of Iowa. Harkin's rider would have banned U.S. support of any "military activities in or against Nicaragua"; the CIA argued that this would prevent necessary covert actions aimed at reducing the flow of arms supplied by the Nicaraguan government to Marxist-led guerrillas in El Salvador. So the House accepted, 411 to 0, a rider offered by Massachusetts Democrat Edward P. Boland, chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, that merely repeated language written into...
...Boland Amendment (if in fact it is not) only by disclosing enough details of its aid to the contras to strip the last shreds of secrecy from the operation. If it is unwilling to do that, it risks having Congress put much tighter limits on its not-very-covert support of the contras. Says one official: "They could pull the purse strings...
...destroy the Nicaraguan revolution." That challenge earned a sharp rebuke from U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, who called Sandinista fears of a U.S. invasion a "myth." Kirkpatrick did not address the main Sandinista contention: that the guerrilla warfare now plaguing Nicaragua is part of a covert operation directed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency...
...congressional source with privileged access to U.S. intelligence information: "We're concerned about the danger of a wider conflagration." At the same time, many members of Congress continue to support the Administration's efforts to curb Soviet influence in the hemisphere, even if it means engaging in covert activity...
Some of that opposition may also be exaggerated. The latest Nicaraguan claims of covert U.S. aid to the insurgents came as the rebels made a series of melodramatic radio broadcasts in which the so-called Nicaraguan Democratic Forces (F.D.N.), an alliance of anti-Sandinista guerrillas that includes many members of the late Dictator Somoza's hated National Guard, said that "the hour of the struggle has arrived." For more than a year, these counterrevolutionaries (known as contras) had staged hit-and-run attacks on the Sandinista regime from sanctuaries across the Honduran border. Their targets were principally...