European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes May 1985 columns Tom Wicker of should we give contras Aid Nicaragua Daniel Ortega May never take a trip More ill advised than his recent Pilgrim age to immediately after the House of representatives voted Down All proposals for any form of Aid to the con tra guerrillas trying to overthrow the sandinista not that the head of a recon even by the Reagan administration Doest have a perfect right to go anywhere Hes any time he wants and ask for Aid from anyone Wholl give and not that those democrats and some republicans in the House who voted against Aid to the contras had any reason to suppose that Ortega headed a jeffersonian or to act As if they just found out that Hes a marxist ortegas timing was wretched and democratic members of already nervous about voting against president Reagan in against the attempted overthrow of a marxist regime in Central quickly seized upon the Moscow trip to have it both throwing up their hands in holy horror because a marxist journeyed to the Mecca of they Are eager to bal Ance their ticket with some kind of Aid to the contras of or humanitarian and not to be administered by those dreadful cold warriors of the whom do they think there kidding the Issue is not and never has been the virtue of the or their political James Kilpatrick or their links with Havana and mos about which no member of the House can have been in any doubt even before Ortega set foot in the the Issue is whether the United states should Arm and finance a guerrilla heavily tainted with survivors from the Somoza the stated goal of which is to overthrow Nic Araguas recognized government and re place it in Power a guerrilla Organiza at whose tactics reputable investigators have found sometimes indistinguishable from the terrorism in other no one denounces More Fer vently than Ronald now that Ortega has visited does the United states have More justification for this Enterprise because the trip tells us nothing about the Sandi nistas not already known when the House voted against Aid to the Are the contras More acceptable now because what Daniel Ortega does has nothing to do with what they so if members of the House believed at the time of the vote that they should not provide Aid to the his trip gives them no cause to change their minds no cause except the headlines it which aroused the Ever lurking fear of american politicians that the Hartline Public May somehow judge them soft on nonlethal and humanitarian on the other is intended to ring less harshly in the ears of whatever softer line Public May have survived the Reagan its All right to Send shoes for the bleeding of and creations for their empty stomachs but bullets and rifles would offend the sensibilities of those opposed to military overthrowing and its still a whether none humanitarian or every Dollar Congress appropriates for pay and clothing is a Dollar the Contra leaders dont have to raise elsewhere which Means that the ample dollars they can get from private sources Here and in the latin countries can and will be spent for weapons and so its not a matter of what kind of Aid Congress should spend taxpayers Money to provide for the contras its a question whether Aid of any kind should be pro if it Chris Dodd of Connecticut has the Best idea million to relocate and resettle the contras and put an end to the Reagan administrations proxy dont hold your breath till it new York times Syndicate missing the child to inspired a famous statue abducted 6v an Afi ing male caucasian known Only Sam usually poses As her a known constitutional lbs Kurty Selfin Beresf Hurt budget management will we Ever get out of the budgetary mess we Are in prospects grow gloomier Day by be tween the forces of self interest and sheer efforts to work toward a management deficit Are being crushed to let me cite three a publication came in the other Day from a non profit conservationist group known As defenders of the defenders wanted to vent their unhappiness with the Reagan administration for its failure to fund the endangered species act As the defenders would like it to be the tone of this report is the conservationists think Only of More granted in a billion the few additional millions demanded to expand the endangered species pro Gram Are Small the administration has proposed to the budget of the fish and wildlife service at about million in Basic funds for endangered species plus million in Grants to the the administration also has in the name of to put a moratorium on further acquisitions of the defenders and their conservationist allies disdain such they demand million for Basic pro Grams and at least million for land without such they contend hundreds of endangered plants and Marine creatures May become even More some May become sex second example on april Senate majority Leader Bob Dole announced that the White House had agreed to a budget package that included certain provisions As to Rural electrification Rea interest rates would be raised to equal the Treasury Cost of borrowing plus Rea loan programs would be phased out Over the next eight on april 26 Dole surrendered to the National Rural corporate free Carp electric cooperative he wrote South Dako tas James Abdnor that the proposed increase in the rate of interest has been the Assumption that budget savings could be reached by phasing out Rea loan programs has been so much for recently it transpired that the Justice department had approved an outlay of to finance a study of pent House and Hustler the object is to deter mine the influence of these if upon juvenile delinquency and child toward this end Judith who holds a doctorate in communication studies and once wrote songs for Captain Kan will undertake an analysis of 660 issues of the magazines dating from 1953 through by analysing the extent and nature of mainstream says the project de scrip with special focus on child this research May be said to Lay the foundation for future studies on the possible or Lack of of pornography with particular emphasis on issues o child very i have supported the endangered species in the face of a goo Deal or from the time of its i have defender the Snail Darter and the furbish Lou Ewort i have fought for the Florida Dune the program is i wish it could be fully but i get increasingly fed up with the me Meme attitude of such outfits As the who concentrate their self interest on their own pet projects to the exclusion of everything the same thing May be said of the there is no longer any reason under Moon or Sun for All the taxpayer to subsidize members of Rural electric citation Cooper the justification simply does not yet such is the presumed political clout of the coops that an agreement of april 5 unravels three weeks it defies belief that in a time of when the administration is charged with causing to for the old folks and malnutrition in the that the Justice department could persist in this idiotic study of dirty every department of ment i mean every department infested with such absurd and useless o1985 Universal press Syndicate