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...Capitol Hill, some Democrats thought they saw Enders mellowing ever so slightly from the hard Reagan-Clark-Kirkpatrick line. "Enders was in a process of evolution," says Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee. "He was a real hard-liner two years ago. But now he's talking about a dual track of military and political solutions." Agrees Democrat Clarence Long, chairman of a House foreign operations subcommittee: "I never thought when I first met him that I'd lament the day he left. But I began to find him quite reasonable and moderate...
...when he fought hard to push his own candidate, Francis McNeil, Ambassador to Costa Rica, as special Central American envoy. The hard-liners won out with their choice, former Senator Richard Stone, a Reagan supporter from Florida. According to a State Department intimate, Enders kept responding to Clark and Kirkpatrick with pleas like "It's not as simple as that...
Reagan said the cutoff, of covert authority by Congress "was taking away the ability of the Executive Branch to carry out its constitutional responsibilities." Another member of the Administration, U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, impugned the motives of some members in an interview with a Buenos Aires newspaper: "There are people in the U.S. Congress who do not approve of our efforts to consolidate the constitutional government of El Salvador and who would actually like to see the Marxist forces take power in that country...
United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, talking the day after President Reagan's address before Congress on the Central American crisis, suggested that this nation still suffers from "a cultural snobbery" about that part of the world. Our hemispheric security was taken for granted for decades. We quite naturally were attracted only to struggles with big countries, big armies, big bank balances. Few, claims Kirkpatrick, even thought a place like Nicaragua was very "interesting." By chance she was speaking in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, her back to the huge oil portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, resplendent...
...Kirkpatrick says we cannot take the old route. The issue is now of "capital importance" to this country. She does note a grudging but significant change in the debate that could signal some deeper sensitivity and a realization of the importance of Latin America. Only a few months ago, she says, few people were talking about another Marxist state in the Caribbean or the extension of Soviet bases and even missiles into the area. Now nobody really dismisses those possibilities...