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Trouble continued this week across Central America. In El Salvador, Communist rebels disrupted national elections by destroying power lines, kidnapping local officials, and threatening terrorist attacks on innocent civilians. And notwithstanding his offer to step down as armed forces chief, Gen. Manuel Noriega still maintains his grip on the reins of power in Panama--a country where the once-familiar "Yanqui go home" has now become "Noriega go home...
...House shouldn't throw War-Powers-Act stones in glass rotundas. They are equally--if not more--to blame as the Reagan Administration for our failure to pursue a coherent foreign policy in an area which was once so secure as to be called "America's backyard". Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama show the indecision and weakness that can erupt when the executive and legislative branches refuse to cooperate on foreign relations...
This would be nothing new for the U.S. federal agencies, who at the moment are working on reducing the number of refugees not just from the countries we support or ignore, like El Salvador or Haiti, but from our communist "enemies" as well. Reagan's proposed budget plans a 25 percent cut in the funds for resettling refugees. So, at a time when Thailand is completely closing its borders to an overflow of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees, the U.S. has decided to reduce their legal numbers by 6000 per year. This will make room for the potential influx of Jews...
...principal figure in the Iran-contra affair. North asked Noriega, Blandon said, to train contra rebels in Panama at a time when the U.S. was forbidden by law to do so. Noriega agreed, Blandon said, though he was at the same time selling arms to Marxist insurgents in El Salvador. North could not be reached for comment...
...original target of the FBI was the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), a Washington-based group that protests the continuation of war in Central America and raises money for humanitarian aid. Although the FBI suspected that CISPES was giving illegal military aid to leftist guerillas in El Salvador, no evidence was found. So the FBI decided to expand their investigation...