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...Republican leadership in the House of Representatives used parliamentary procedures for the third time to put off a vote by the House Foreign Affairs Committee to cut off funding for the Administration's ill-concealed covert support for armed Nicaraguan counterrevolutionaries who oppose their country's leftist government. Clement Zablocki, chairman of the House committee, called the latest maneuverings at State "not helpful" in the long-term effort to prevent an anti-Administration vote. Argued liberal Democratic Congressman Gerry Studds of Massachusetts: "The Administration is clearly in violation of a host of international laws and treaties...
...appeared that this nation of 4 million people, the poorest in Central America, might escape the turmoil that troubles neighboring Nicaragua and El Salvador. But the conflict has since spilled over Honduran borders. U.S.-backed anti-Sandinista guerrillas have turned the country into a staging ground for operations against leftist Nicaragua. Two weeks ago, the Reagan Administration announced that it would send an additional 100 U.S. military advisers to Honduras and that the Americans would begin to train Salvadoran troops at Puerto Castilla on Honduras' northern coast. Many Hondurans fear that their fledgling democracy may be in danger. Warned...
Fearful that leftist radicals might try to exploit Honduras' domestic woes, Alvarez began to crack down on terrorists after the inauguration of Suazo in January 1982. The Argentine-trained Alvarez seemed to be adopting the same tactics the military junta in Buenos Aires used in its "dirty war" against leftist terrorists in the 1970s. According to human rights activists, 34 people have been murdered and an additional five have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. In April, paramilitary squads gunned down three trade-union leaders. Says Ramón Custodio López, a doctor who helped found the Honduran Commission...
...defense, the general contends that reports of human rights abuses are considerably exaggerated and points out that the men responsible for the trade-union murders were quickly brought to trial. Alvarez, as he sees it, has been forced to respond to the dramatic upsurge of leftist terrorism that followed the return to civilian rule. Last year, for example, Honduran leftists hijacked a domestic airliner and later held 100 businessmen and government leaders captive in the San Pedro Sula Chamber of Commerce building. Honduran security police have also uncovered "safe houses" used by El Salvador's guerrillas to store guns...
While council funding has approved funds for the causes of numerous liberal groups, Smith says that conservative organizations receive more money from alumni and outside organizations than do liberal ones, which accounts for the larger number of requests from leftist groups...