European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns Tom Wicker the stars and stripes saturday november 23. 1985 Reagan May be tempted to intervene in Nicaragua while the world s attention was focused on the Summit storm Clouds darkened Over Nicaragua and though regional disputes were on the Agenda at i Neva it s  that anything done or said in arc ill much a Fucci what May be the cumin crisis in Central America. Both the Nie Rapuan government and the i  contras Are saying hat that crisis is at hand. When the sandinista announced in october the suspension of certain civil liberties for example the reason Given by president Daniel  was thai themar Mcm was on the verge of routing the contras. The suspension was Nec Essary he said to help prevent the rebel forces from regrouping from the other Side of inc Fence. Arturo c re. Once a member of the govern ment and perhaps the most respected Contra Leader said Insl week "1986 Isahc year when the Book will be closed. If the sandinista arc still in Power by the end of i9kfi. That s  if Ortega has in Decd inc military Situa Tion correctly the bad news is that it s highly unlikely hat the Reagan administration in a election Yea would stand by and let go Down inc Drain its determination to overthrow the Sandinia tas and Lurn Back whal in regards As a soviet threat to the hemisphere. Arpani in still another rebel Force would Lake Loo Long and probably prove ineffective so rather than let inc contras be crushed. President Reagan might support them Wilh . Air strikes or other . Forces. But if Cru is Corr cd thai inc contras might succeed next year in Over throwing the sandinista not Only will the War intensify but so will the danger of its spreading across the honduran or Costa rican Borders or both. That would also make in likelier that inc United states might be drawn into the Battle in de sense of these allies. Or. If Washington saw thai the sandinista were near de feat. The temptation could be great to intervene and give them inc final push. Perhaps even More ominous was inc announce Mcnol by Humberto or Tega Saavedra. Nicaragua s defense min William Buckley Isler and the president s brother thai his country May acquire new fighter air planes to counter what he said was a . Plan to equip Honduras with advanced f 5s. A state department official said that there is no plan to do this not until inc French Mystic re fighters that already give Honduras the strongest air Force in Cen trial America can no longer be repaired. The official said the mys acres probably will last a year or two More. Bui in this age of deniability that statement whether intentionally or not leaves plenty of room for the United states to equip Honduras with f-5s sooner rather than later. If the United Stales did so Nicaragua would be within it Sovereign rights As it would have been last year or would be right now to seek advanced fighters of its own perhaps so Viet migs or French mirages. But the Reagan administration has termed Nicaragua s acquisition of such aircraft in  and . Officials have left the Strong impression thai the administration might mount air strikes to destroy inc planes before they could be used. Thus if the Pentagon no f-5s to Honduras during inc crucial coming year and if Nicaragua then acquired advanced fighters of its own. The Reagan administration might have just the excuse it would want to enter the War either to finish off the sandinista or to Rescue the contras. It s even possible Given the depth of the administration s hostility thai the f-5s might be sent deliberately to trigger a nicaraguan reaction that would give Washington an excuse to inter Vene. On the other hand inc Sandi nistas might acquire the aircraft even without the provocation of f-5s going to Honduras. Thai. Too. Would raise the grim possibility of direct . Intervention. The consequences in  America either from open . Military action or from the downfall of the sandinista under pressure from .-Backcd contras probably would be severe. To mention Only two possibilities the trend toward democracy in several latin countries could be reversed by an emboldened right and latin debtor nations would find it More difficult to a Cav in Gringo interventionists. But these arc not possibilities which inc Reagan administration seems to fear or even to contemplate. New York Ermei Nevi sol rvs keeping in touch with Mother Earth and Emerson &rtl.and. Ore. At cd in Tiv it n m in amnio.  v Portland. Exactly 6 ., Joe male real izod in inc lobby of the hotel. The night before when he said he would drive me to the Airport to catch the 6 50  Flight i demurred Loo Early Inich morning 1 said. No no no no sweat he even handed me his business card writing out his Home Telephone number on the Back of in. Shortly after the alarm woke me. At 5 40, i could t resist the Templa lion to dial the number just in Case. Joe an swered the phone. Told me he was on the Way Oul of the door i must l worry. He was driving a while Mercedes sports car so i needed to put several of my bags into his Back  a Mailer of seconds we were off his headlights illuminating the Way. He drove with the natural skill of inc american who learns to drive when he is about 13. And Joe drove according to protocol Speed limit plus 10 percent. I repeated i was sorry he had had to Rise so Early. No problem no problem he said. I always gel Pearly. Five o clock As a  of course i asked Why and he replied that he jogged. Every morning pretty much every  he paused Vandinen said that he was going to try Oul for the hawaiian Marathon next summer. I said i had heard that in was awfully Lough awfully competitive did l it go for 25 Miles or something like thai  said 26 Miles actually. But 1 figure at 42 i d better try now. Or else i m not going to do it  he went on i came Back from the army in 1967 Vietnam. I was a platoon Leader in the infantry there. When i got Back Here to Portland i took Ajob As a Carpenter Hhd 516 known the Trade carpentry before no. He was sort of Handy at fixing things he said because he had grown up on a farm with his 12 Brothers and Sisters. I figured it this Way when i got out of the army that i was Worth $20 an hour but All they paid me at the construction com anywhere i went to work was s2.50 per hour. Soi Fig ured i would have to earn the equivalent of $17 super hour More by picking things up. I got to work Early Eft Lale. Studied the Bleep rants figured Olhow blueprints corresponded with the work done and after about a year i started my own construction company. 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