Monday, March 24, 1986
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Senate faces contra issue
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The running congressional battle over aiding Nicaragua's contra rebels shifts to the Republican-controlled Senate this week where leaders of both parties are searching for a bipartisan compromise.
But some senators who contend that President Reagan has been too quick to abandon diplomacy in his effort to curb Nicaragua's left-wing Sandinista regime say that so far he has offered only a badly flawed fig-leaf compromise.
They predict that unless the administration commits itself to a serious effort to achieve a negotiated solution in Central America — before arming the contra rebels — the Senate fight over the $100 million aid package will be as fierce as that in the House, where the Reagan plan was rejected 220-210.
The Senate will begin debating the issue tomorrow and is expected to vote by Thursday.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, are preparing to insert into the legislation promises made verbally by Reagan last week. Reagan said that if the aid were approved he would give the con-
tres only defensive arms for the first 90 days while pushing negotiations.
planning for future use.
Lugar said the plan would allow extension of the 90-day period under some circumstances and would include assurances that human rights abuses by the contries would be curbed. And he said there might be economic aid to Nicaragua if negotiations were successful.
"It's not a compromise at all," he said. "It simply delays the military aid for 90 days."
But Sen. James Sasser, D-Tenn., spokesman for Senate Democrats on Nicaragua, called the effort an attempt to fashion a fig leaf compromise.
Sasser said the offer was shot through with conditions that the administration knew would lead to a failure of negotiations.
Reagan demanded Saturday that the House vote rejecting the aid plan last week be reversed in the Senate and promised a national radio audience that the plan would be pushed until it was approved.
Sasser, replying for the Democrats, said the House vote reflected a widespread feeling that the United States should not escalate the undeclared war in Nicaragua and should not pursue military solutions until the possibility of negotiation was fully exhausted.
Reagan defended by aides
United Press International
WASHINGTON — As President Reagan complained bitterly of alleged lies told by foes of his Nicaraguan policy, two of his top aides insisted yesterday that the administration's goal was a ballot-box ouster of the Sandinistas.
The focus of the debate over Reagan's Central American policy, and his controversial plan to give $100 million in aid to the anti-Sandinista contas, shifts to the Senate this week, but the controversy over administration tactics, which
colored the House debate, continues.
collected the house deacons.
Although Reagan lost a 222-210
House vote Thursday on the de-
pressure, Donald Regan, White House
chief of staff, said the president
would emerge victorious in the
Senate with a compromise — a view
endorsed by Sen. Richard Lugar,
Republican chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee.
The compromise, which entails holding back most of the $70 million in military aid to the contrasts for 90 days to encourage negotiations, was offered in the House as an executive order. Lugar, R-Ind., and Regan said
it would be added as an amendment in the Senate, giving the condition the full force of law.
Recently, in discussing opponents' allegations that White House tactics had descended to the level of Redbaiting, President Reagan retorted that he had been maligned.
"Some of the opponents of our program engaged in some of the most scurrilous, personal attacks against me," Reagan said. "For example, the most dishonest use of distortions and outright falsehoods that I have heard in a legislative battle."
Envoy backs Nicaraguan aid
United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Four Democratic congressmen returned to Washington from Nicaragua yesterday, expressing pessimism that negotiations would ease tensions between the United States and the Nicaraguan government.
One of the visiting congressmen, Rep. G. P. "Sonny" Montgomery of Mississippi, also contended that U.S. military advisers should be used to train contra rebels who were seeking to overthrow
Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government.
Montgomery, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, backed President Reagan's unsuccessful attempt to win $100 million in aid for the Nicaraguan rebels.
The House on Thursday narrowly rejected Reagan's aid request. But the Senate will consider the issue this week and some compromise is expected.
"My trip here has convinced me I made the right vote, and I would
vote that way again," said Montgomery at a news conference in Augusto Cesar Sandino airport. "But there will have to be U.S. military advisers and trainers
Montgomery and Reps. Sander Levin of Michigan, Kenneth Gray of Illinois and George Darden of Georgia made a two-day trip to Nicaragua to gather information.
They told reporters their visit showed them that the Sandinista government repressed freedom of religion, speech and other human rights.
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