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From: gil@cornell.UUCP (Gil Neiger)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <1298@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 09:31:24 EST
Article-I.D.: cornell.1298
Posted: Tue Dec  3 09:31:24 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Dec-85 19:03:20 EST
References: <7559@ucla-cs.UUCP> <7800762@inmet.UUCP>
Reply-To: gil@cornell.UUCP (Gil Neiger)
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept.
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Summary: 

In article <7800762@inmet.UUCP> janw@inmet.UUCP writes:
>US government had some initial  hesitation  about  the  Contadora
>process;  then  it  decided to endorse it. It has been officially
>supporting it now for years.

I have never seen any indication that the U.S. was willing to sign
the Contadora group's proposed treaty that Nicaragua has offered to
sign.  Could you please cite some sources here?

> ... who do you think supported  the  Con-
>tras  through  the year when the funds were cut by Congress ? Un-
>named Latin American sources. Unofficial position of many people
>there is very different from their speeches.

Much of contra support during the period came from Israel and El Salvador.
These are both governments that receive considerable military aid from the
U.S. through which the U.S. can disburse military aid to pariahs such as
Guatemala and the contras when such aid might be unpopular or illegal.

>(BTW, I see nothing wrong in checking if Ortega is ready to deal.
>Any deal, though, should include power sharing and cutting ties 
>with Havana and Moscow).

Could you explain with whom and why the Sandinistas should share power?
And why should they cut ties with Havana and Moscow?  Do you recommend
the U.S. funding armed insurgencies in western Europe to force countries
there to end any ties they have with Cuba or the USSR?  Or do you think
negotiations are sufficient to get them to do so?  And how do we keep
the U.S government from constantly making commercial deals with the
Soviet Union?  Would you favor armed insurrections around the U.S. to
prevent such economic ties?
-- 
        Gil Neiger 
        Computer Science Department 
        Cornell University 
        Ithaca NY  14853 

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