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WASHINGTON--President Reagan asked Congress yesterday for the final installment in a $100 million aid package for Nicaragua's Contra rebels, while House Democrats sought to drive home the point that past aid money remains unaccounted...
...subject of U.S. aid for the Contras,Reagan sent Congress a certification that there is"no reasonable prospect" of peaceful settlementand a democratic Nicaragua unless the aid iscontinued. The certification automaticallytriggers $40 million in additional aid unlessCongress disapproves it within 15 days...
Although the Coors family funds many conservative causes, William Coors claims that he is "very strongly moderate," and cites his support for the Equal Rights Amendment and opposition to the Contras fighting in Nicaragua. Joseph was not available to comment on his political stands...
Professor John Womack has objected to the appointment of Dr. Robert Leiken as an associate at the Center for International Affairs on the ground that he is a "propagandist" for the anti-Sandanista forces in Nicaragua. Dr. Leiken, in long articles for the New York Review of Books (a liberal periodical) and The New Republic, a Democratic Party supporter, was critical of the right-wing in the contras, but also critical of the Managua government...
...instead of his usual abstruse speech about free-market economics. At a time when some Republicans are distancing themselves from Reagan's foreign policy, Kemp embraced it with renewed fervor and blamed any mistakes on Shultz. He accused the Secretary of State of neglecting "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan and Nicaragua and of waffling on the Strategic Defense Initiative...