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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Orphaned Response (Who killed Contadora?)
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 14:00:46 EST
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> [baba@spar]	
> RE: Contadora. Specific formulas come and go. Discussing them  is
> part  of  the  Contadora  process  we  are  speaking of .  If USA
> government *rejected* (a binary word !) the  Contadora  *process*
> (this year or last), I'll eat my hat. One of the reasons I'm sure
> is that its severest critics keep accusing it of  being  cold  or
> insincere in its support for the process.
> Rejection would be a peal of thunder; it couldn't be missed.
> 
> 		Jan Wasilewsky
> 
> P.S. OK, I checked: see Foreign Affairs, fall issue, article
> "Contadora Process Demystified". You may put your doubts to rest:
> USA still supports the Contadora process. In fact, everyone 
> does. 

I thank Jan for pointing me to a resource that I had forgotten I'd had,
Foreign Affairs.  I don't usually think of it as a resource in debate 
because it is devoted almost entirely to opinions and policy options
- past, present, future, and would-be policy makers selling their positions - 
rather than to historical and economic fact.  Nevertheless, the article
on the Contadora process is informative, though one must read beyond the 
author's bias as a member of the Reagan administration's Latin American
policy team in 1980-81.  In particular, it describes how the draft treaty
agreed to by Nicaragua in September of 1984 was rejected by the U.S., for
the reasons I mentioned in my previous posting.  The Nicaraguans have been
holding out for a comparable deal ever since.

						Baba