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SECRETARY of State George P. Shultz waxed eloquent before a House subcommittee last week. "It we are to achieve the kind of world we all hope to see, with peace. Freedom and economic progress, democracy has to continue to expand," he declared. "Democracy is a vital, even evolutionary force. It exists as an expression of the basic human drive lot freedom...
...sounded like they prelude to a dramatic reversal of American foreign policy. A cutoff of military aid to the ruling regime in EI Salvador perhaps, or a severing of U.S. ties with South Africa? No way Shultz was outlining a plan called "Project Democracy." which the Reagan Administration intends to start up as the latest weapon in its ongoing ideological crusade against Communism...
...just because the ideological war will cost $85 million in the next two years. "The more we look at this thing, the more nervous I become over it." said one Republican, who accurately guessed that most African and Asian nations would consider the project a foreign intrusion. Shultz replied with patriotic sentiment: "Don't be nervous about democracy, about holding that torch up there." He bolstered his argument by calling the program "critical to our national security" and by promising the CIA would not be involved...
...cynics remained, which is good, because Shultz never answered the really tough questions. He would not unambiguously assure the panel that the program would be targeted at all non-democratic nations and not just Communist societies. And he skirted the issue raised by a New York Democrat who asked: "Are we prepared to provide help to democrats in such places as South Korea, the Philippine, in such places as Taiwan, where there are governments friendly to the United States, but obviously with little respect for democracy...
...them shoot their way into the -government? No dice!" That was the crisp response of Secretary of State George Shultz last week as he traded views with members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee over the nettlesome issue of El Salvador. For what seemed to be the umpteenth time, some of the committee's members, led by Republican Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa and Democratic Congressman Stephen J. Solarz of New York, had suggested that the Reagan Administration agree to negotiations on power sharing between the beleaguered Salvadoran government and opposing Marxist-led guerrillas...