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That view was echoed a day later from the Hague, where the World Court ruled that the U.S. is violating Nicaragua's sovereignty by sponsoring the contras. The 15-member International Court of Justice, responding to charges filed by the Sandinista regime in 1984, after the CIA-inspired mining of Nicaraguan harbors, held the U.S. liable for unspecified reparations. The Administration, which challenged the tribunal's jurisdiction in the dispute, said it would ignore the judgment...
Still, the antipathy of House members toward the Sandinistas outweighed reservations about the rebels. Since the March vote, many House Democrats had tired of Nicaragua's intransigence in the slow-moving Contadora peace talks. They were also angered by a Sandinista attack on a contra camp in neighboring Honduras. The Administration early in June disclosed that the Soviet Union had made a direct military shipment to Nicaragua, and in a speech last Tuesday the President starkly portrayed the contras as the only force standing between the U.S. and a "Soviet military beachhead" in North America...
...next 16 to 17 months," said Alfonso Robelo, one of the three top rebel political chiefs who lead the United Nicaraguan Opposition. "For the first time we can count on more permanent support." But the military aid will also put pressure on the contras to show some results in Nicaragua. Insisted Louisiana Democrat and Contra Backer Buddy Roemer: "There will be no blank checks for the contras...
...overthrow the Sandinistas, and it remains uncertain whether they can even slow Ortega's drive to consolidate one-party rule. In the short run, at least, U.S. support for the contras has had the opposite effect: the day after the House vote, the Sandinistas shut down La Prensa, Nicaragua's leading independent newspaper and hinted at new restrictions on opposition political parties...
Though the U.S. maintains very tough trade sanctions against such countries as Cuba, Viet Nam, Kampuchea, Libya, North Korea and Nicaragua, the Reagan Administration opposes any similar action toward South Africa. So far, Washington has banned the sale of arms, oil and certain police equipment to South Africa, withdrawn from sports and cultural exchanges, curtailed government loans and stopped the sale of Krugerrand gold coins in the U.S., but Reagan opposes the adoption of additional measures. Moreover, the Administration argues that America's ability to influence the Botha government's policies is marginal, even though the U.S. is South Africa...