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Until November, Edgar Chamorro was principal spokesman for the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the largest of the contra groups fighting to overthrow the Sandinista government. Chamorro, who carried out his mission from exile in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Key Biscayne, Fla., revealed that he had been picked for his job by the CIA. The agency, he disclosed, had printed training manuals instructing the guerrillas in such activities as assassination, kidnaping and blackmail. For that revelation he was ejected from the contras. Now the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service wants to expel Chamorro from the country. Two weeks ago, the New York Times...
Reagan's most effective step in changing congressional minds was a declaration that U.S. assistance was designed not to overthrow the pro-Moscow Sandinista regime but to pressure it into coming to peaceful terms with its domestic opposition. In a letter to Oklahoma Democrat Dave McCurdy, who helped shape the compromise bill, Reagan said, "My Administration is determined to pursue political, not military, solutions in Central America." He also offered to explore "how and when the U.S. could resume useful direct talks with Nicaragua," which were broken off last January by Washington...
Over the longer term, the most important result of last week's vote may unfold not in Nicaragua but in Washington: the politics of gradual consensus. A solid majority in Congress now agrees that the U.S. must pressure the Sandinista regime for change, but not by attempting to overthrow it illegally. In a debate that has dragged on as long as Ronald Reagan's presidency, reaching that agreement is no small accomplishment...
...foreign policy defeat. After the Senate passed a highly diluted measure providing humanitarian aid to anti-Sandinista Nicaraguans, the House considered three separate proposals offering various forms of assistance and ended up deciding to cut off aid altogether. The vote effectively scuttled U.S. support of the rebels seeking the overthrow of the Marxist-led Sandinista regime, at least for the time being. Said a "deeply disappointed" Reagan: "This kind of action damages national security and foreign policy goals...
WASHINGTON -- The Democratic-controlled House last night rejected 248-180 President Reagan's proposal for $14 million in direct military aid to contra insurgents seeking to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua. The same resolution was approved 53-46 by the Republican-led Senate only a few hours earlier...