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Monday, May 4, 1987/The Battalion/Page 11
World and Nation
Reagan seeks to increase aid
lo Contras despite skepticism
HV YORK (AP) — President Rea-
staking out a tough position on
telve of the Iran-Contra hearings,
■ Sunday that cutting off aid to
:bels in Nicaragua would give the
^tt Union a free hand in Central
Hrica and “one of their greatest
Bgn policy victories since World
far El."
Ragan said that when members
■ongress vote later this year on
Ho the rebels, it may well be the
H important vote of 1987 and
Bsibly one of the most important
Hn their careers in public office.”
He warned that “delays and inde-
Bn here at home can only cause
Hecessary suffering in Nicaragua,
Hce the confidence of the emerg-
ig democracies in the. region and
Hanger our own security.”
Heagan’s remarks appeared to be
Hffort to raise the stakes in the
He over aid for the Contras, who
Htrying to oust the leftist Sandi-
H regime.
He spoke in an address on Ellis Is-
H during the opening ceremonies
Hhe American Newspaper I’ub-
sher’s Association annual conven-
on
Today, Nancy Reagan will ad-
e Jress the annual luncheon of the As-
Adlted Press, which is held in con-
Vnction with the ANPA meeting.
l| his remarks, Reagan made no
Hion of the televised hearings
t know oetiing on Capitol Hill Tuesday on
:aknesHiplecret sale of arms to Iran and
or whicMi
possible diversion of profits to Con
tras.
Instead, Reagan turned up the
heat on Congress to approve aid to
the rebels. After winning approval
of $100 million in aid last year, the
administration is seeking $105 mil
lion this year amid signs that Con
gress is increasingly skeptical about
say ‘democracy.’ ”
Arguing that America has main
tained a bipartisan consensus on for
eign policy for 40 years, Reagan de
clared: “This is no time for either
party to turn its back on that tradi
tion or on the cause of freedom, es
pecially when the threat to both is so
close to home.
“If we cut off the freedom fighters, we will be giving
the Soviets a free hand in Central America, handing
them one of their greatest foreign policy victories since
World War II. ”
— President Ronald Reagan
sending money to the Contras.
Frank Carlucci, Reagan’s national
security adviser, said on Air Force
One en route to New York, he
hoped the Iran-Contra hearings
would not undermine support for
Contra aid.
“I would hope Congress would
weigh this issue on the merits,” he
said, adding that the Contras were
“innocent victims” of the whole af
fair. “They themselves were not ac
cused of any wrongdoing.”
He stressed that Reagan’s theme
was a diplomatic message.
Asked whether the goal — as once
staled by Reagan — was still to make
the Sandanistas say “uncle,” Carlucci
replied, “the goal is to make them
“The survival of democracy in our
hemisphere requires a U.S. policy
consistent with that bipartisan tradi
tion.
“I do not think there is anyone in
Congress who wants to see another
base for Soviet subversion, another
Cuba established on American
shores — yet that is what is happen
ing right now.
“It is now an issue on which all
Americans must unite; it is simply
too important to become a partisan
firelight in the next election.
“If we cut off the freedom fight
ers, we will be giving the Soviets a
free hand in Central America, hand
ing them one of their greatest for
eign policy victories since World
War II.”
He said that “without the pressure
of the Central American democra
cies and the freedom fighters, the
Soviets would soon solidify their
base in Nicaragua, and the subver
sion in El Salvador would reignite.”
“Make no mistake: the Soviets are
challenging the United States to a
test of wills over the future of this
hemisphere,” he said.
Reagan said the choice before
Congress is “between democracy
and communism in Nicaragua, be
tween freedom and Soviet-backed
tyranny.”
The president said that since the
leftist Sandinistas took control seven
years ago, the United States has tried
repeatedly to negotiate with them.
“But since those first negotiations
back in 1979, in which the Sandinis
tas promised a democratic, pluralis
tic society, we’ve seen that these
Marxists-Leninists never intended to
honor those promises,” he said.
But Reagan promised that he
would lend his “full support to any
negotiations that can build democ
racy throughout Central America
without further bloodshed.”
Expressing qualified support for a
Costa Rican plan for a peaceful set
tlement in Nicaragua, Reagan said,
“For as long as I am president, I
have no intention of withdrawing
our support of these efforts by the
Nicaraguan people to gain their
freedom and the right to choose
their own national future.”
slpagan opens
^Invention
mile but i ■
or publishers
JE NEW YORK (AP) — T he nation’s
Hvspaper publishers gathered
it dav h'< jaM a y f° r a four-day meeting
d sa id s onl the future of their industry,
fromtht|§ rin g President Reagan say
■t cutting off aid to Nicaragua’s
bv Doir. 0 ? 11 ™ re bels would give the So-
daughr vie f Union a xna j° r policy victory.
utuelofi!® ea g an ’ s s P eec h at Ellis Island
jglSfl, kicked off the 100th anniversary
93 600 : ' onvent k )n of the American
Newspaper Publishers Associa-
ion.
i'Ellis Island, which sits just off
«■ (Mile New Jersey shore in New
IV* 11fork Harbor, was the first stop
for 12 million immigrants arriv-
, n « on ships from Europe be-
lent heaiHen 1892 and 1954.
“Jeep w The theme of the convention is
de wasuHie Blessings of Liberty: The
i a sunn;Hu 100 Years.” The publishers
i always™| discuss the future of the
mileoriiewspaper and retail trades in-
jnd hirclUstries, as well as such current
member lopics as drugs, minorities in the
^ him nii^vsroom and the Tower com-
rging tin llission report on the Iran-Con-
1 homeiJa arms scandal.
Reagan’s remarks appeared to
lean effort to raise the stakes in
sen skiiN battle with Congress over aid
ather, Mfor the Contras, who are trying to
niesrel; ;)ust the leftist Sandinista regime.
rs j c |( Cutting off aid to rebels in Ni-
w reali iara g ua would give the Soviet
Jnion a free hand in Central
^(j i^merica and “one of their great-
assists,tv® foreign policy victories since
pjr MitiiVorld War II,” Reagan said,
nade it i >4 e l ev t sec * hearings open Tues-
ereelimc^y in Washington on the secret
t lowaW °f the arms to Iran and the
ijpssible diversion of profits to the
fjontras. Reagan did not mention
fae hearing and said nothing
Hut the purported transfer of
^ I'N funds — a subject about which he
' f^las pleaded ignorance.
f Other speakers at the four-day
invention include Nancy Rea-
fornier President Jimmy
ter, Sen. Robert Dole and for-
Sen. Gary Hart,
he Associated Press meeting
will include a seminar on the
bwer commission report.
China news agency reports
former Afghan leader in jail
BEIJING (AP) — Former Afghan
leader Babrak Karmal has been ar
rested in Afghanistan and is in jail,
China’s government-run Xinhua
News Agency reported Sunday.
The agency quoted diplomatic
sources in Islamabad, Pakistan, say
ing Karmal was sent to Pul-e-chark-
hai Jail in the Afghan capital of Ka
bul.
Xinhua said the order to arrest
Karmal, the former Afghan presi
dent and secretary-general of the
People’s Democratic Party of Af
ghanistan, came from the ruling
Revolutionary Council of Afghani
stan.
Karmal, 58, headed the council
during the nearly seven years he was
in power.
Xinhua said the reason for Kar-
mal’s arrest was unknown.
In Moscow, an official with the
Afghan Embassy was asked about
the report.
Speaking on condition of ano
nymity, he replied: “I haven’t heard
about that. As far as I know, I think
it’s not correct.”
The official said the Xinhua re
port might be “propaganda from
imperialists.”
China has aided Moslem guerril
las who are battling Afghan govern
ment troops and an estimated
115,000 Soviet soldiers in Afghani
stan.
Monitors of Radio Kabul, the offi
cial Afghan radio, did not report
hearing any announcement that
might indicate Karmal was impris
oned.
Karmal was established as Afghan
party leader on Dec. 27, 1979, when
Hafizullah Amin,
coup reportedly
his predecessor,
was killed in a
backed by the Soviet Union.
The Soviets at the same time sent
80,000 troops into the country.
Amin had succeeded Nur Mo
hammed Taraki.
The Communists came to power
in Afghanistan in April 1979, when
President Mohammed Daoud was
killed.
Karmal’s disappearance from the
political scene in Afghanistan has
been a gradual one that some West
ern analysts said was orchestrated by
the Kremlin in an effort to contain
unrest among his supporters.
On May 4, 1986, Karmal was re
moved as party leader but kept the
titular presidency and membership
on the ruling Politburo, believed to
have about 12 members.
Senator: Reagan knew about aid
sent to provide arms for Contras
WASHINGTON (AP) — President
Reagan was aware that money was
being raised to provide arms for the
Nicaragua rebels, Sen. Daniel
Inouye said Sunday, but Reagan in
sisted his knowledge of private aid
efforts was limited to a television
campaign to garner support for the
Contras.
Inouye, D-Hawaii, the chairman
of the Senate committee investigat
ing the Iran-Contra affair, said the
president “knew much more” than
the White House has admitted, but
Reagan said in an impromptu en
counter with reporters Sunday he
had “no detailed information” about
the private network.
Inouye heads the Senate commit
tee that, along with a companion
House committee, will open public
hearings Tuesday into the secret sale
of U.S. arms to Iran and diversion of
payments to Nicaraguan rebels.
Inouye was asked whether his re
view of excerpts of Reagan’s diaries
led him to believe the president was
aware of the effort to raise money to
supply arms to the Contras.
“The president was aware that
monies were being raised to provide
arms for the Contras,” Inouye re
plied.
Inouye added that he believed the
president knew about the fund-rais-
mg effort at a time when Congress
“had expressed its intention that
funds should not be spent for arms
for the Contras.”
But Sen. Warren Rudman, R-
N.H., vice chairman of the Senate
panel, said, “There’s a difference be
tween public and private funds . . .
and that’s, of course, the one issue
that we have yet to hone in on.”
Reagan has said he knew nothing
about the diversion of arms sales
profits to the Contras during a time
when Congress had banned U.S.
help for the guerrillas. He also has
said he met with donors to a private
foundation set up to raise money for
the Contras, but said he thought the
foundation run by Carl R. “Spitz”
Channell was only seeking the
money to pay for pro-Contra tele
vision ads.
On Sunday, Reagan said he was
aware of the private aid network,
“but there was nothing in the nature
of a solicitation by the administra
tion, to my knowledge, of anyone, to
do that.”
The president said he listened to
Inouye’s remarks on television. “As
the program went on, I listened to
him very carefully and made it plain
what he was actually saying that, no,
I did not have knowledge of things
of that kind,” Reagan said. “What he
had said in the first place was that I
was not off someplace on an island,
not paying any attention.”
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