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...consensus on a new $48 million humanitarian-aid package. The assistance, approved overwhelmingly by both the House and the Senate, provides the contras with nearly $18 million in food, clothing and medical supplies over the next six months. An equal amount will be applied toward the medical treatment of Nicaraguan children injured in the seven-year war. In addition, $10 million was allocated to help cover the expenses of the verification commission called for in the Sapoa accord, and $2.5 million was allotted to a U.S. agency to pay the costs of administering the aid program...
There was a noticeable loosening of the controlled Nicaraguan press as contras appeared on various radio shows. But the plight of the opposition daily La Prensa raised questions about whether the Sandinistas intended to honor the Sapoa accord's call for "unrestricted freedom of expression." Last week the daily was unable to go to press because the government was squeezing its newsprint supply. The two pro-Sandinista newspapers were able to print more copies than they could sell...
...Reagan's former National Security Adviser John Poindexter; fired NSC Aide Oliver North; and two arms dealers, former Air Force Major General Richard Secord and Iranian-born Businessman Albert Hakim. They were charged with conspiring to defraud the U.S. by establishing and concealing a plan for illegally supporting the Nicaraguan contras. The federal grand jury also charged all four defendants with theft of Government property for siphoning off more than $17 million in proceeds from U.S. arms sales to Iran, and with wire fraud resulting from the movement of the money through Swiss bank accounts. The three counts together carry...
...last Wednesday, Ronald Reagan's flawed Iran- contra policy came close to just such a singular confluence. Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh announced his long-awaited criminal indictments of two of the President's former National Security Council staff members and their accomplices for diverting Iran arms profits to the Nicaraguan contras. Less than four hours later, the President ordered 3,200 troops into Honduras as a show of resolve against Nicaragua's Sandinistas, who once again had crossed the Honduran border to pin down the hapless contras in their main base...
...fighting in Central America was proof that the U.S. cannot simply declare victory for the peace process and get out. The Sandinistas' attempt to knock out the contras' remaining major supply base a week before peace talks were due to resume suggests that Nicaraguan Leader Daniel Ortega is no more interested in compromise than is the President. If Congress refuses to sustain the contras any longer, it must still come to terms with Reagan, or his successor, on a policy to contain the Sandinistas and foster democratic reforms in Nicaragua...