European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes saturday May 31,1986 columns & comments William Safire . Near no moment of Rufft in Centra of Arnerich can we renounce the goad and worthy ideals for which these nicaraguan patriots shed their blood and believe the Freedom Tost there May not one Day be lost Here us Well Ronald Reagan asked rhetorically last week As he urged support for the contras. Some say yes i say never he answered himself. Bombast it the Jires Idem believes his administration is United behind him in Selling and espousing a Clear policy to Slop communism in Nicaragua he is living in a dream world. We arc coming to he moment of truth in Central America up 10 now Only the trouble the contras have been causing in Nicaragua s Back Yard has stopped communist expansion. Bui in a couple of weeks the Contador compromises arc scheduled to offer Nicaragua a treaty that will Call on the United Stales to end All military pressure on the communists in return for the easy reiteration of a set of promises the revolutionaries in Man Agua have broken before. The soviet supported communists would be crazy not to sign the cutoff of Aid to the Pesky resistance is real while honest elections with press Freedom and an end to subverting neighbors arc promises that tall tripping by from he Tongue. At that moment Reagan would need to commit All his resources of popularity and marshal Alt his dwindling support in the Congress to strengthen the anti communist contras. Is he getting ready to do that consider last week the pro Contra Side of the Rea Gan administration led by the Pentagon s Fred Ikic and. Supported by the Cia s William Casey issued a report casting doubt on the likelihood or the Managua dictatorship s suddenly going into the Promise keeping business and predicting that the withdrawal of support to the contras now would result in the need to commit 100,000 . Troops in years to come. But the anti Contra Wing of the same administration is led by career super Diplomat Philip Habib. In a schism that exceeds the worst Brzezinski Vance Dissen Sion in the Carter administration Habib s slate depart ment announced that the Pentagon study issued to con Gress and the Public under a department of defense Seal has no standing As a . Government what caused this War Between state and do fens the Root reason is a dispute allowed to Feller by the increasingly Remote president Over whether our sponsorship of continuous military pressure is needed to Slop and reverse communist expansion in our sphere of influence. The immediate cause was. The written statement by Habib that on signature of a pact . Aid to Nicaragua s rebels would cease. That caused alarm and dismay among hard line congressmen Ted by rep. Jack Kemp r-n.y., who have been fighting in the House James Kilpatrick no Weinber or Voy Tell tue drus testing is mandatory for Federal for what they thought was the president s policy they remember the Nixon Kissinger sellout of the foolishly trusting kurd in Iraq and do not want this Allied Force to be treated As expendable in an amoral Power game. The White House tried to build a paper Bridge Over the chasm praising our state department envoy while having a disembodied voice offstage Call the formulation of ambassador Habib we will delay our abandonment of the contras Accord ing to the senior official afraid to affix his name
