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WASHINGTON--President Reagan's plan for sending $100 million in military aid to Nicaraguan rebels stalled yesterday as several key members of Congress objected to harsh White House rhetoric aimed at opponents, and two more House panels opposed the request...
WASHINGTON--Two House panels voted yesterday to recommend against giving $100 million to rebels fighting the leftist Nicaraguan government. President Reagan insisted that the money must be approved so the United States will not have to send "our own American boys" into the conflict...
...members of Congress hide their heads in the sand and pretend the Nicaraguan threat will go away, they are courting disaster and history will hold them acountable," he said. "Nothing less than the security of the United States is at stake...
...Whose side are you on?" Reagan's conservative aide wrote. "With the vote on Contra aid, the Democratic Party will reveal whether it stands with Ronald Reagan and the resistance--or [Nicaraguan leader] Daniel Ortega and the communists...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger '38 had argued yesterday that the leftist Nicaraguan government was becoming a "second Cuba on the American mainland [meaning] the Warsaw Pact will have effectively outflanked...