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...House Correspondent Laurence Barrett, including a quiet dinner late in the week to discuss his role as National Security Adviser in the events. On Capitol Hill, Correspondents Evan Thomas and Christopher Redman covered the House's passage of the bill to cut off funds for covert operations in Nicaragua. Redman also detailed the debate over the CIA'S role in Central America. The story even spread into a Washington federal courtroom, where Justice Department Correspondent David Jackson reported on an American businessman who is suing the U.S. for occupying part of his Honduran ranch in order to train...
Symbolically, it may have been. In practical terms, the 228-to-195 House vote Thursday night to shut off covert U.S. aid to the contra guerrillas who are fighting the Marxist government of Nicaragua will have no immediate effect. The Republican-controlled Senate almost certainly will not approve a similar bill. So the contras' campaign will continue?though whether the Administration can persuade Congress to renew U.S. support for the guerrilla struggle, much less double it as President Reagan wants to do in the new fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, is now in doubt...
...series of ill-tuned revelations, in particular the disclosure that the U.S. had begun a number of highly visible?and, say critics, highly inflammatory?military maneuvers in Central America. Over the next six months, a total of 19 U.S. warships will take part in exercises off both coasts of Nicaragua, and as many as 3,000 to 4,000 American troops will participate at any one time in war games in neighboring Honduras. As the vote drew near, Congress was further roiled by leaks appearing in the press that the Administration planned to expand its covert actions against Nicaragua...
...covert" U.S. support of the contras operating in Nicaragua involves a large logistics and communications operation in Honduras directed by CIA experts. They use unmarked supply planes as well as surveillance aircraft...
...Panama to protect the canal. It includes 9,000 Army, Navy and Air Force personnel, who man an infantry brigade, a squadron of A-7 light attack jets and a Special Forces airborne battalion. Although these forces could be carried by C-130 troop transports to Honduras or Nicaragua in less than two hours, security of the canal presumably would be of great concern in a military crisis in Central America. Any responding American troops would probably be airlifted from the U.S. in the manner soon to be rehearsed...