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...include the contra opposition in their government. The President's remarks represented his most forthright departure to date from his previous insistence that the purpose of U.S. support for the contras was to force Nicaragua to cut off, or at least reduce, support for insurgents in neighboring El Salvador. Reagan's words seemed designed to jar Congress into releasing $14 million in contra aid. Congress had agreed to that allocation last October, but then held back for a second vote originally scheduled for this month...
...stop serving as a Soviet surrogate and expel the Soviet and Cuban advisers at present in the country; to reduce the size of their armed forces, now numbering more than 100,000, to the size of those in neighboring countries (18,000 in Honduras, 49,000 in El Salvador); to "absolutely and definitively stop their support for insurgents and terrorists in the region"; and to live up to their commitment to the Organization of American States in 1979 to embrace pluralism by including opposition groups in the political process...
...Administration's initial support for the contras, which began in 1981, was justified on much narrower grounds: to cut off the flow of arms from Nicaragua to rebels in El Salvador. The statements by Shultz and Reagan last week are simply a "more realistic expression of policy," explained a senior State Department official. "If there is a shift, it is in going from saying 'No, the downfall of the Sandinistas is not what we want,' to saying 'Fine, if that's what happens...
...case is being widely publicized by opponents of d'Aubuisson, whose party is running candidates in El Salvador's legislative elections next month. Duarte's Christian Democrats have placed newspaper ads charging that Guirola planned to use the money to buy votes. In Washington, White House aides have leaked reports tying the money to drug deals. The campaign against d'Aubuisson could backfire if his supporters convince voters that the episode, including Guirola's arrest, amounts to gross U.S. interference in Salvadoran politics...
...selectivity shown by divestiture advocates is truly appalling. If Harvard were to divest of all stock in companies which profit from profound "evil." It might be reduced to holding only domestically-chartered savings and loan stock. Everything from stock in companies which deal with the Soviet Union. Chile, EI Salvador, and Iran (among many others), or make nuclear and other response, to U.S. Government securities issued in the last five years (which largely financed the military buildup), would have to go. This isolationism ad absurdam would serve no purpose whatsoever other than to provide a moral salve to distant...