Word: e1
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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REAGAN'S POSITION is obvious. He will say whatever Congress makes him say, so long as they keep funding his crusade against communism in Central America. But where do the Democrats stand? The Democrats have let themselves fall into a dilemma. They don't want to give up in E1 Salvador. "It would be a tragedy if we cut and run in E1 Salvador," declared Senator Joseph Biden (D-Del.); "No one on this side of the aisle has ever advocated a total abandonment of E1 Salvador," confirmed Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn...
Hence, in E1 Salvador, the House Foreign Affairs Committee has urged political accomodation, as detailed in 11 pages of human rights demands, and a "dialogue in 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...
...political, and one-sidedly so. One recipient is the North American Congress on Latin America. Unapologetically leftist, it hardly ever finds anything to criticize in Cuba or Nicaragua. Two other groups funded by the churches helped set up the n Washington-based Committee in Solidarity with the People of E1 Salvador, a totally uncritical support group for the partly Marxist guerrilla forces in that nation. Shrugs one of its officials: "In a war, innocent people get killed. We've picked a side. It's not our place to comment on how the people in El Salvador are fighting...
...Reagan, the region's economic strains offer a chance to continue his two-year-old Latin American crusade against communism. Past Administrational-Marxist policies have included extensive military support for the besieged right-wing government of E1 Selvador, and the concentrated use of financial and military weapons to weaken the socialist leadership of Nicaragun. And, after marking Cuba as a primary source of Marxist "trouble" in the region, Reagan effectively banned business and tourist travel to the island last Mary...
...leader, anticipating Reagan's wish to exchange economic aid for support of American anti-socialist policies, recently said that "unacceptable or polemical" conditions of aid would be opposed. Other Latin American nations most notably Mexico and Venezuela, have strongly refused to toe that Reagen line on Cuba, Nicaragua and E1 Salvador. They are conspicuously absent from the President's schedule in the next five days...