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...months, if not years, he has fairly itched to come out and say it, and last week he almost did. Asked at a nationally televised news conference if he wanted to "remove the Sandinista government in Nicaragua," President Reagan replied, "Well, remove it in the sense of its present structure," which he described scornfully as "a Communist totalitarian state" and "not a government chosen by the people...
Reagan's remarks were part of a concerted effort to pressure Congress into restoring aid to the contras. Congress has specifically barred the use of U.S. funds "for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Nicaragua." Last October the lawmakers voted $14 million for the reb-els, but stipulated that the money not be spent until Congress took a second vote this March...
...Lafayette, Steuben and Kosciuszko, the French, German and Polish officers who fought with the American colonies during the Revolutionary War. Secretary of State George Shultz joined the offensive at a congressional hearing last week. He declared that the U.S. had a "moral duty" to rescue the people of Nicaragua, who had fallen "behind the Iron Curtain." That statement seemed a bit hyperbolic. It is not established that the Sandinistas take their orders from the Kremlin the way the East bloc countries do. But it is clear that they are mightily beholden to the Soviets for a steady stream...
...Administration's initial support for the contras, which began in 1981, was justified on much narrower grounds: to cut off the flow of arms from Nicaragua to rebels in El Salvador. The statements by Shultz and Reagan last week are simply a "more realistic expression of policy," explained a senior State Department official. "If there is a shift, it is in going from saying 'No, the downfall of the Sandinistas is not what we want,' to saying 'Fine, if that's what happens...
...Said he is endorsing a variety of measures introduced in Congress this winter to put pressure on the racist white-minority regime, and called on President Reagan to bring the same pressure to bear on South Africa as he has on the Sandinista Regime in Nicaragua. Reagan has said explicitly that he wants to "remove" the Marxist-led regime in Nicaragua, but not the same of South Africa, "which is playing the game by two sets of rules...