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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, March 21, 1986
Reagan promises to fight for aid
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A disappointed President Reagan declared yesterday that he would try again and again until he won congressional approval of $100 million in aid to Nicaragua's contra rebels.
Reagan, his words relayed by stern-faced spokesman Larry Speakes, said, "Tomorrow, I will begin to press in the Senate — and then back again in the House — for the real and effective assistance for Nicaragua's freedom fighters which was denied them today, and which those brave men and women deserve."
Reagan told the rebels not to be discouraged by the vote.
"So, to the freedom fighters of Nicaragua, I say: Have faith. Have hope. The American people are just now awakening to the justice of your cause — just now realizing that your struggle is their struggle."
"The fight has just begun in the Senate." Speakes said, turning his White House platform over to Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who predicted victory.
Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the
Foreign Relations Committee, said Reagan suggested to him and Dole in an Oval Office meeting after the House rejected the aid on a 222-212 vote, that his compromise be incorporated into the Senate measure when it was called up.
"He was disappointed, not happy," Dole said, describing Ragan's mood.
"Today's vote in the House of Representatives was a dark day for freedom." Reagan said in the statement read by Speakes. "This vote must be reversed. The Soviet Union cannot be permitted to enjoy the luxury of knowing that once captured, a country will be relegated forever to the communist camp.
"We declare our unwavering support for freedom and for peace-loving people struggling to overcome communist tyranny.
"You have my solemn determination to come back again and again until this battle is won — until freedom is given the chance it deserves in Nicaragua.
"We are gaining ground. We are winning converts. The next battle will bring us the victory this just and good cause rightly deserves."
Speakes, who earlier in the day said any delay in supplying military aid to the contraas would cause serious consequences to national security, was asked after the vote what they would be.
Any delay, he replied, would allow the Marxist-led Sandinista government to continue its tyranny and its efforts to wipe out the opposition.
Dole and Lugar said they did not think that White House rhetoric labeling opponents as siding with the Sandinistas played a role in the defeat.
"Temporarily, we have had a backset — the president has, the contras have," said Dole. "But we'll move on to our next performance, on live radio from the Senate on Tuesday afternoon."
Speakes said, "The rhetoric and the words are the president's word. I don't consider this inflammatory rhetoric. We are telling the truth."
Dole said he would not frame the Senate debate as a vote for or against communism but as a vote for the president and for the people who are willing to die for freedom in Nicaragua.
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Aid would have been most given
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The $100 million aid package for the Nicaraguan contrasts voted down by the House yesterday would have been the largest single allotment of assistance by the United States since it started backing
Congress had approved $24 million
Allegations about leftists not verified
in aid for the guerrillas in late 1983. President Reagan within months asked for $21 million more.
All military aid was cut off in October 1984, but Congress set aside a $14 million appropriation that Reagan could ask for in 1985.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Some of the accusations President Reagan made against Nicaragua's leftist government, as he sought to win support for $100 million in aid for antigovernment contra rebels, may be unraveling.
A poll cited Monday by Philip Habib, Reagan's special envoy to Central America, as evidence that Central Americans support the contra, turned out to have been conducted last year. A more recent poll by the same organization indicated Central Americans against contra aid.
Despite active efforts, the administration has not gotten any Latin American country to endorse aid to the contras, and most say they oppose it.
Reagan said top Nicaraguan government officials were involved in drug trafficking, but the Drug Enforcement Administration said it knew of no evidence to support that charge.
Reagan said past American efforts to negotiate with the Sandinistas had been rebuffed. The Nicaraguan, other Latin American countries, many American churches and a large number of members of Congress say the administration never negotiated seriously. Sen. James Sasser, D-Tenn, says the Reagan administration broke off the talks.
The Brazilian government is seeking an explanation of what Reagan meant in his speech on Sunday night when he listed Brazil among targets of Nicaragua's outlaw regime. There is no insurgency there, the Brazilians say.
Meanwhile, Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams acknowledged to Congress that one group of contras — although not the main group — also was being investigated for drug smuggling activity.
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