European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes March Tom Wicker Reagan reveals his real intentions in Nicaragua nothing could have disclosed More clearly the sheer arrogance of Ronald reagans policy toward the recognized government of Nicaragua than his news conference statement that its present Structure would have to be removed unless they say saying Uncle after like throwing in the a recognized Symbol of in Central such a remark from a presi Dent must have carried a particularly contemptuous ring and not just in throughout that Uncle Sam owing to his Long economic domination and frequent military interventions is by no Means the loved and admired figure he is in the United reagans news conference remarks at least cleared away his shabby pretence that he Only wanted the nicaraguan government to Stop shipping arms to antigovernment guerrillas in Al Salvador an activity never and now his aides Are assiduously pointing out that the Boland amendment prohibiting expenditure of Federal funds to overthrow the Nicara Guan government is no longer in so if Congress now appropriates the million with which Reagan wants to resume Aid to the so called nicaraguan democratic Force better known As contras Congress in fact will be voting funds for the military overthrow of the sandinista government in senior Contra in interviews with James Lemoyne of the new York have conceded what was obvious All along their objective is now and has been from the Start to throw out the sandinista and to take their place in its Clear also that Reagan lied to As Well As the in obtaining the past appropriation of about million to support the a senior member of the Senate intelligence committee to if to the truth should have been confided told me in 1984 that the administration had assured the committee repeatedly that its Only purpose was to interdict the alleged flow of arms from Nicaragua to the salvadoran after the bombing of Managua the mining of nicaraguan the blowing up of Nicaragua main Oil and the growth of the contras to an army of to a state department official tells Joel Brinkley of the new York times that arms interdiction never was the goal of Aid to the he would have been a fools and it May be wondered if politically shrewd senators Ever really believed such a transparent reagans intent to Aid the contras in Over throwing the sandinista is not so con tra foot soldiers Are for the most mercenaries but their military leaders Are indelibly stained by former membership in the hated National guard of the repressive Somoza and their political leadership was hand picked As most of their supplies have been provided by the Uncle Sams not hidden a counterrevolutionary Force backed by the Cia and William Buckley this is tax simplification 4 this is the congressman Uno wanted a Small change w tax simplification this is the who cant to to Amend the one Small change in tax simplification this is the constituency to the amended version of mom Small change in tax this is the Lauver Uno wanted to adjust the one addition to m amended vision of the oni Small change in tax  the Little adjustment to the one addition to the amended version of the one Small change in tax which med to mob lev the qualification of the la Tell adjustment to the one addition to the awed version of the one Small change in tax this is tax i simplification led by former National guardsmen is the worst possible bet to gain popular support in the very that Nicaragua is under military attack by a Force directed and supplied by that same Uncle Sam who has so often intervened in Central America the last the Somoza dynasty bound to strengthen support for the sandinista govern ment and improve nicaraguan National Unity in resisting external perhaps As a reflection of these nicaraguan Lemoyne visiting the contras base Camp on the Hon Dura nicaraguan Border found that most of the troops were peasants from the Northern part of the coun try few were either Middle class or from the More pop Ulous and since they began their War Early in the contras have not been Able to take and hold any substantial nicaraguan town or or to demonstrate enough support to make a provisional govern ment seem to resume support for the contras would be to commit the United states to a probably doomed military not to a popular political movement to the overthrow by Force and terrorism of a government recognized throughout the and openly linking Ronald reagans prestige and credibility to that Force and that objective would make All the More Likely the ultimate participation of forces in what would be not so much another Vietnam As another c 1985 new York times Syndicate  hesitate to scrap fhe abm Freaky the French have a Nice to Fausse Idee and maybe Bill Safire one of these Days will Tell us what is the sayings but it refers to an idea that is wonderfully illuminating and Emancia the Only trouble with it being that it is probably the Best Fausse Idee Claire in the postwar world has been the United a forty years ago it seemed so wonderfully Plain constitute a body in which every nation is commit that body to peace and and Presto you will have peace and have you noticed they Are doing the same thing right now with the ant Ballis tic missile treaty of 19121 the Liberal establishment is saying that if we proceed to violate that there goes the Dis armament bail the reason for the abm treaty in the first place was the anti imaginative fever that seized the country As a result of our diminishing fortunes in and in Par the tet offensive of when the vote on appropriating funds for abm Sites passed the Senate with Only one vote to Nixon and Henry Kissinger saw that the country was engaged in a fierce determination not to that was the same when we threw aside billion Worth of research on a supersonic transport the same season in which the anti noise nuts practically repealed 200 years of Franco Ameri can Friendship rather than permit the con Corde to land in Washington and new Nixon and his advisers resolved that Given the current technological we were better off with a treaty with the soviet Union in which both parties agreed to limit Abms to two than with no a situation in which the soviet Union would proceed More or less the thing then to remember is that the abm treaty has the effect of institutionalizing the doctrine of Mutual assured de this does not mean that we should repeal abm but does mean that we should not be in the least sorry to junk it which by the terms of the treaty we Are permitted to do after serving six months notice when that Happy moment comes when we gradually find our selves depending More and More for our Security on our capacity to protect Ameri cans than on our capacity to kill now enter Thatcher with the inter Esting on which the safety of Europe heavily it is one she to go ahead and research the Star wars but on no account should while engrossed in the strategic defense neglect our Basic atomic Arsenal on which Europe it of the Nightmare of right minded europeans that the United states will close its nuclear leaving Europe to its own if tomorrow every atom bomb on Earth the Day after tomorrow soviet troops would occupy we Are about Long stretches of perhaps 20 years or even during this period the Ideal would be a gradual transmutation away from mad toward High heavy re Day after repeal of abm Day after begin Day after agree with the soviet Union that there is no Way in which proliferation of nuclear weapons can proceed at a rate fast enough to catch up with the proliferation of antinuclear Day after the beginning of nuclear of to make Progress at the Tail end of such a narrative the cooperation of the soviet Union is but that cooperation will Issue not out of any sudden Access of Good but instead out of a sense of altering strategic circumstances the gradual  of the nuclear if five years hence it would require two missiles to do the work of and 10 years 10 missiles to do the work of the Kremlin will know along the nuclear missiles become the Nickels and dimes of strategic but we should Bear in mind that to go that Noble route Means eventually to scrap a treaty we would never have consented to if Good judgment had prevailed in