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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Thursday, Dec. 5, 1985
Reagan authorizes U.S. aid to contras
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan signed legislation yesterday that allows the CIA to provide intelligence and communications training and, equipment for the anti-Sandinista forces in Nicaragua.
The narrowly drawn new powers for CIA activities on behalf of the contra forces are included in the fiscal 1986 authorization bill for U.S. intelligence operations.
The law gives the CIA permission to exchange intelligence information with the counter-revolutionary forces fighting the Marxist Sandinista government in Managua and allows the intelligence agency to provide the guerrillas with communications equipment and training.
The law signed yesterday broadened the definition of "humanitarian" aid to include trucks, but prohibits their modification for military use.
Earlier this year, in refusing a request by Reagan for renewed military assistance, Congress authorized $27 million in "humanitarian" aid for the rebels but barred the CIA or the Pentagon from being involved in its distribution.
Reagan called passage of the bill a "congressional vote of support" for
the contras and "a recognition of the threat the repressive Sandinista regime in Managua poses to all the peoples of Central America."
"Although the Congress did not authorize the full program requested by the administration to support the democratic forces in Nicaragua and to facilitate the reconciliation of the Nicaraguan people," he said, "the legislation is a positive step and furthers important United States policy objectives in this vital region."
Congressional Quarterly reported the bill authorized at least $10 billion for the assorted intelligence agencies within the government, with less than $2 billion of that sum for the CIA.
The legislation Reagan signed was approved in the Senate on a voice vote and nearly unanimously, 387-21, in the House.
Much of the money for intelligence operations is tucked away in classified portions of a separate defense appropriations bill.
Reagan, in a written statement, called the bill "another positive step in our efforts to revitalize America's intelligence capabilities and to protect the nation from hostile intelligence threats, particularly those of the Soviet Union and its surrogates."
In Harare, Zimbabwe, Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu yesterday rejected the idea that the church should actively support the armed black nationalist movement in South Africa.
Tutu is among 37 South African delegates to a World Council of Churches emergency meeting designed to map out a new strategy on South Africa in the face of rising violence in the country and the South African government's refusal to dismantle its policy of racial segregation known as apartheid.
Riot erupts in Soweto
In Cape Town, police shot and wounded a worshiper after a candlelight service in the church of dissident clergyman Allan Boesak, president of the Geneva-based World Alliance of Reformed Churches.
Witnesses said police were waiting in an armored truck when about 400 people spilled out of the church after a service for "peace and liberty."
"A policeman threw stones from the truck and then one of them fired a shotgun around," said a witness who declined to give his name.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Rioters hurled a hand grenade yesterday at police in Soweto as Chris Heumis, South Africa's constitutional affairs minister, toured there and promised blacks the right to own property.
United Press International
Police said the grenade attack, which caused no injury or damage, apparently was not linked to the minister's visit to Soweto, home to an estimated 2 million blacks on the outskirts of Johannesburg and the country's largest black ghetto.
KU Baha'i Club Invites Interested Students and Faculty to Attend Our Meeting
Thursday, Dec. 5
7:30 p.m.
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