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TIME's continuing concern about events in Nicaragua is reflected once again in this week's cover stories on the controversy over U.S. aid to the contra rebels fighting the Marxist-leaning Sandinista regime. That interest prompted the magazine to station a full-time correspondent in Managua, Nicaragua's capital, more than half a year ago to maintain a firsthand perspective on the country's policies and problems...
...Capitol Hill, however, House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.) said calls and telegrams to his office were showing public resistance to Reagan's request to send money to the Contras fighting the Sandinista government in Managua...
...prepared remarks, four days before the House votes on his aid proposal, Reagan urged his countrymen not to ignore "the malignancy in Managua until it spreads and becomes a mortal threat to the entire New World...
...group of House Democrats, led by Californian Mel Levine, has proposed a plan under which Reagan would impose a six-month moratorium on military maneuvers in Central America, resume bilateral talks with Managua and meet personally with the Contadora group to discuss a peace plan. When asked if he would go along with the proposal, Reagan said, "No, I think six months is too long a time with what we're facing down there...
...five-year history. Indeed, one of the obstacles facing Ronald Reagan's policy of using the contras to make the Sandinistas "cry uncle" is that, even with a significant infusion of military aid, the desultory band of rebels shows little potential of posing a threat to the regime in Managua...