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Secretary of State George C. Shultz described the Sandinista administration last December as "a cancer in Central America that has got to be removed." To do this the Reagan Administration is seeking $100 million in military and economic aid to foot the bills of the Nicaraguan Contras as they wage war against the government. Military support, the administration claims, is the only alternative to the direct involvement of North American troops...
...once again, the U.S. government is inflexible to reasonable compromise where Central America is concerned. The Latin American ministers met with a cool response from Shultz last month in Washington. The Reagan Administration refuses to alter its unremitting campaign against Nicaragua. As one leading official is reported to have said, "Contadora's document of objectives includes pluralism, democracy, and reconciliation. How do you get the Sandinist Communists to agree with that? The answer seems to me clear, and it is pressure." Military pressure, of course...
...have a stake in freedom, we have a stake in democracy," Secretary of State George Shultz told the Senate Budget Committee on Wednesday. "Let's put that first, even above the bases...
...Clark Amendment banned any American assistance for his forces. Even today the Administration's position is equivocal. After Reagan's half-hour meeting with Savimbi, the President said that he wanted "to be very helpful" but did not commit himself to a specific offer of aid. For his part, Shultz noted the difficulty of devising a formula for Angola that would be "effective." Nonetheless, word leaked out last week that the Administration was prepared to send covert aid to Savimbi. Various Congressmen have also proposed several UNITA aid bills, including one calling for $27 million in overt military assistance...
...relations with Savimbi is his reliance on supplies and occasional military support from South Africa. "I consider the Executive President of South Africa as my friend, if it shocks you or not," Savimbi told 60 Minutes. While Savimbi has proposed giving up South Africa's support for U.S. aid, Shultz has argued that open U.S. aid would jeopardize relations with black African nations and compromise the neutral American role in persuading South Africa to withdraw from Namibia, the former territory of South West Africa that borders Angola. Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker has been pursuing a diplomatic solution that...