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...hands of other, still more shadowy arms merchants. The Reagan Administration has said that North diverted some of the Iran arms money to the contras in Nicaragua. Presumably the funds went through a network of arms dealers, supposedly operating with private donations, who supplied weapons to the anti-Marxist rebels all through the two-year period during which Congress had forbidden direct or indirect U.S. military aid. As far as anyone can tell, the contras seem to have got very little in the way of either cash or arms out of this convoluted pipeline...
Then came the students. Their massive marches in December, protesting a selective-admissions policy contained in a university reform bill, were in many ways quintessentially French. But the anarchist and Marxist youths who emerged among the students were reminiscent of young Italian zealots who consider the Communists stodgy old fogies...
...foreign policy, the most dramatic ideas the President is hearing are dubious ones advanced by hard-liners. One group is urging that Reagan both announce he is moving toward early deployment of his Strategic Defense Initiative and greatly increase pressure on the Marxist Sandinistas in Nicaragua. The Central American initiative would mean asking for a huge increase in U.S. aid to the contra rebels and assigning American ground troops to support the guerrillas. "That would focus public debate on something useful to the country," says one adviser...
...repaid it to the Pentagon. But anywhere from $10 million to $30 million went into numbered accounts that Meese said were "under the control of representatives" of the contras. Presumably, the money was used to purchase weapons that the rebels need to wage their guerrilla war against the Marxist Sandinista government of Nicaragua. North was, according to Meese, the "only person in the United States Government" who knew precisely of the money transfer. Poindexter knew vaguely about the transactions, and McFarlane learned something about them while pursuing diplomatic contacts with Iran as a special presidential emissary after he had resigned...
...President's lifeline, U.S. aid, may not be as strong as it once was. Since 1979, when the Marxist-oriented Sandinistas took power in Nicaragua, the U.S. has sent more than $1.5 billion in economic aid to El Salvador. The Reagan Administration has sent an additional $500 million for military use, while hailing Duarte as a bulwark against the spread of Communism in the region. Nonetheless, Secretary of State George Shultz, during a recent visit to San Salvador, acknowledged that American aid has limits...