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Several politically charged issues had virtually immobilized the legislators. The House had voted to end all further funding of the CIA-sponsored contras fighting the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and slow President Reagan's Star Wars defense plan by banning the testing of antisatellite weapons in space. The Senate, however, insisted on funding both programs. In addition, the House wanted to spend some $100 million next year on 39 water projects, many in the West. Reagan let it be known that he was prepared to veto any funding bill that included major water projects and denounce the Democrats...
...some labeled a Democratic ploy. House negotiators agreed to drop the water projects, thus putting pressure on the Republicans to abandon contra funding. The Republicans finally relented; contra aid was cut off at least until next February, when a new vote can be taken if the President certifies that Nicaragua is still trying to subvert its neighbors in Central America. As for the Star Wars proposal, the Pentagon was permitted $1.4 billion in new funding for three antisatellite tests and other research...
Standing awkwardly behind a microphone in a new suit and tie, he looked like a timid substitute teacher or possibly a computer whiz before a job interview -anything but what he really was: the uncompromising leader of Nicaragua's pro-Marxist Sandinista regime. Comandante Daniel Ortega Saavedra, who is running in his government's first presidential elections on Nov. 4, spent the past two weeks stumping across the U.S. Accompanied by his wife and an entourage of eleven Nicaraguan officials and ten Secret Service men, Ortega was attempting to woo Americans away from President Reagan's anti...
...would accept a draft of a non-aggression pact proposed by the Contadora group, Washington was understandably skeptical about their intentions. For at the same time, the government refused to postpone the elections to give the opposition candidates a reasonable shot at office, thus effectively scotching the application in Nicaragua of the Contadora principle of free participation of political parties in the electoral process. Nor, despite Washington's horrible policies towards the country, is there any evidence backing up Ortega's claim--repeated in a Harvard appearance last week--that Washington horrible planning a November military invasion of his country...
...peasantry, and a heavy U.S. "helping hand" may, in the end, lie beyond moderate solution, but there is nothing else to do but try. Perhaps the other protagonists in the Central America story will take stock of the merits of talking peace, as practiced by Duarte. In Nicaragua, a return to the ideals of the Revolution would immeasurably strengthen its case internationally, which is being bolstered now only by Reagan's propensity to wave a big stick. Delaying the elections and then allowing free campaigning would add something more than lip service to the Sandinista professions of adherence...