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Would tightly link aid to El Salvador to proven progress in land reform, a better judicial system and an end to death squads. Would stop U.S. support of rebels fighting the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, but favors the interdiction of weapons flowing from Nicaragua into El Salvador. Urges direct talks with the Sandinistas...
Would cut off U.S. military aid to El Salvador until death-squad activity stops and those guilty of murders are prosecuted. Wants to end U.S. support of the contras in Nicaragua. Would remove American troops from Honduras...
...members of Congress. And so were the results: election-year posturing and exploding tempers. Only this time the shouting on Capitol Hill was not merely for effect. The Administration's urgent requests for emergency military aid to the government of El Salvador and for the contra rebels fighting Nicaragua's Sandinista regime were clearly in peril...
...long run, this argument goes, such activity creates more sympathy for the rebels, lifting their chances to win the military struggle. In the event they do win, they would almost certainly turn out to be even more authoritarian than the present government, and El Salvador would join Cuba and Nicaragua as a Soviet client state. Under Secretary of Defense Fred Iklé publicly accused some Congressmen of wanting to "wash their hands of Central America like Pontius Pilate" and charged that "un der the cloak of being concerned about human rights" they would "impose a course of action" that actually...
...Administration fared no better last week in a clumsy last-ditch effort to increase U.S. aid to the contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. Alaska Republican Ted Stevens agreed to attach a request for $21 million for the rebels to a bill being considered by the Senate Appropriations Committee to provide funds that would help poor people pay their fuel bills. The backfiring tactic was devised by top White House Aides James Baker and Richard Darman. Even some Republicans on the Republican-controlled committee were outraged by the stratagem, which would have forced Senators opposed to funding the Nicaraguan contras to vote...