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Spokesmen for the House and Senate committees investigating the sale and the diversion of profits to Nicaragua's Contra rebels confirmed that lawmakers have not yet received the Israeli information. A Senate source said the material is still expected, and added he would not characterize Israel as uncooperative...
...first news conference in four months, Reagan said again he was unaware until last November that profits from the arms sales had apparently been funneled to Contra rebels in Nicaragua, and said he still does not know what happened to the money...
...past half a dozen years, the armies of the industrialized world have been mercifully underemployed. There have been no superpower standoffs, no new Viet Nams in Central America, no Cuban missile crises or Afghanistan invasions, no oil embargoes. There have been failures like Lebanon and frustrations like Nicaragua. Yet a significant number of experts believe that even if Reagan does not manage to negotiate a reduction in nuclear weapons, the grim specter of World War III, an image relished by demagogues on both right and left, has actually receded a bit. No small part of that legacy is Reagan...
...come immediately. Last week Reagan made a formal request to the lawmakers to release the last installment of $100 million in aid that was granted to the Nicaraguan contras in 1986. To win the release of the $40 million, the Administration had to certify that peaceful efforts to reform Nicaragua's Marxist Sandinista regime have been futile. Congressional Democrats hope to counter Reagan's move by imposing a moratorium on any further contra aid until the Administration accounts for money that has already been sent to the rebels, including the funds diverted from the Iranian arms sales and contributions solicited...
Grassroots projects in Zimbabwe, Bolivia, Colombia, India, the Dominican Republic, Kenya, Nicaragua and Sri Lanka are among the many funded by ODN's various chapters. An ODN branch at Yale University sponsored a cooperative bakery in Tangwena, Zimbabwe and one at the University of Utah helped finance construction of a well in a small Bolivian town. During the past three years, ODN has sponsored a total of 15 such programs...