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you steadfastly refuse to be chilled in your re porting but what if the Man on the 35th floor be came a pal of Helms or of Ted Kennedy select your seat and take your i am a right Wing newspaper sometime frequent and nightly television news that combi nation produces this feeling stockholders hire managers to produce news operations most often become profit centers through straight and colourful they earn the Public that Trust is an asset that must not be dissipated through journalistic which is subservience to any one Point of new York times Syndicate Congress stirs up the recipe for another Vietnam this is the most important congressional moment since May when Congress supported intervene  on the anticommunist Side in the greek civil Congress thereby transformed containment from a theory into a Congress has now effectively killed Aid for the anticommunist Side in Nicaragua civil con Gress has forbidden even modest financial support for the military Effort of a mass movement prepared to do the dying to prevent consolidation of the second soviet satellite in this hemisphere and the first on the North american the evisceration of containment is what reagans aides offered As com Promise Aid restricted to nonmilitary uses was Defeated in the but when he he was beaten Al he sought military support for a military movement and on an Issue he characterized correctly in the starkest moral and National Securi to his characterization was disproportionate to his he did not go to the country on a great communicator does not Deal exclusively in Good news it is time for a tax Cut Amer Ica is Back and standing he also rallies majorities for hard Rea Gan has chosen to Hoard his political Capi Tal for what the great Battle Over Amtrak subsidies in 1947 president Truman told Congress i believe it must be the policy of the United states to support free people who Are resist ing subjugation by armed minorities or by outside reagans policy was the past tense is required the Truman doctrine after 38 years of communist and an armed nicaraguan sustained by outside East Ger is soviet zing Nicaragua in the Way that was being done in Eastern Europe in the soviet unions sandinista clients have no More right to Rule Nicaragua than Vidkun Quisling had to Rule yet the world continues to speak of sandinista Steps toward stalinism As the sandinista Are not somehow failing to implement democracy those failings Are premeditated for spoke of quarantining but an isolationist Congress until the big War now that today con Gress has essentially spurned the communist dictators on four continents will know that Congress will not permit even Small let alone the sum involved million is 12 percent of the sum Mil lion the government had Given to the sandinista regime by familiar voices Are saying the usual things that the United states drove the sandinista into soviet but in their first two the sandinista received More Aid from the United states than from any other country times More than the Somoza regime received in its last two someone should calculate the value in 1985 dollars of the Aid France the american it i will much More than during the Vietnam people eager to believe were encouraged by Hanoi to believe that South Vietnam was experiencing an indigenous peasant revolt and that the Fer ment in Indochina was Only cosmetically the sandinista deny their american protectors the Comfort of that pre the sandinista do not deign to Dis Guise their stalinism at their socialist Solidarity with the soviet Union and its other their revolution without Bor Ders against in 1947 Congress had fresh memories of the terrible Price paid because of non Resis Tance to Hitler at the time of the demilitarization of the today the historical memory of Many members of Congress consists entirely of Vietnam and its putative Les but congressional management of policy toward Central America too Little too late Pursuit of the chimera of negotiated settlement with a regime that does not believe in splitting differences is a recipe for another Vietnam another protracted surely the americans who should talk least about negotiated liberalization of the sandinista regime Are those americans by trying to de stroy the Are removing the Only serious pressure on the Nicaragua communist writing in the new York says support for the contras is contrary to american that is an Odd complaint from someone who proclaims his detestation of american and it is an ignorant Given the Long his tory of support for resistance to Tyr today there Are anticommunist insurgencies in Angola and Cam americans opposed to the contras in a declaration of indifference to the Only Force that might enable Nicaragua to join tur Argentina and Honduras on the list of nations that have risen from tyranny to Mikhail Gorbachev hit the ground run Ning right at threatening reprisals if Pakistan continues to facilitate Aid for the afghan now that Congress has spurned the How Long will Pakistan resist soviet pressure now that Congress will not countenance support for the the increasingly tinny voice of the United states will have decreased resonance in South the Philippines and other places where free Dom is at it is said that an Optimist is someone who believes his future is optimism about and not just democracy in Central is irrational now six months after a landslide reaffirmation of a acting in the name of has removed the Keystone of his foreign policy support for democratic c 1985 Wail Nylon Post croup