European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Nixon visits soviet Union Page 2 d Clemens wins for botox Page 21 d . Arms proposal criticized Page 27 unofficial publication vol. 45, no. 87 monday. July 14, 1986 Ahmed faucet a � a d 8693 a . Steps up Contra Effort by the Washington Post Washington three weeks after the House Vole thai gave president Reagan nearly All he wan cd to fight Nicaragua s leftist sandinista government. Inc relevant intelligence military and diplomatic experts in official Washington arc moving toward a kind of War footing. It is Clear that the Aid package for anti government rebels known As contras will involve far More Money than the $100 million voted by the House far More people than the 20,000 fighters who will receive it and far More monitoring and evaluation than either critics or supporters of the program like to acknowledge according la administration and congressional officials. Although surrogate troops and nol marines will spearhead the Effort 10 make the sandinista cry Uncle As Reagan once put it the contras will be advised and informed trained and equipped criticized and evaluated by . Intelligence military and go political strategists. A flurry of inc Agency meetings and task Force plan Ning sessions has begun to give shape to the new pro Gram. As expected it will be run by the Central Intelli ence Agency. Army col. William c. Comic or. Who As just finished a year commanding .-honduran military exercises in Honduras reportedly has been selected to become program coordinator pending sen ate approval. Fluent in Spanish comic was Inspru mental in Selling up the series of exercises that began in i9h3 when he was stationed at Southern com Headquarters. The Maneu vers have involved roughly 24,000 . Troops in 12 series of exercises since Early 1983, according to defense department figures. If the new surge of Aid to the contras is working administration officials contend these symptoms will be evident escalated military activity throughout Nicaragua possibly including attacks on the capital City of Managua disciplined combat by the contras with relatively few civilian casualties or human rights complaints rapid growth of the Contra forces and n reinvigorated internal opposition loading to cracks in the sandinista leadership and soviet restraint in bolstering the sandinista. Reagan backers in Congress say the support depends very much on what happens  contras Are on a very thin string with the . Congress said Mark Falcoff a conservative latin America scholar who recently joined the Senate for eign relations committee staff. They Are surrounded by people just wailing for them to fail so they can jump right on top of them and they know  Lawrence Pozzulo. Ambassador to Nicaragua under president Jimmy Carter spoke for Many critics of Reagan s policy. Nicaragua is in bad economic shape already and this program will bring them to subsistence living Bui they won t give in at least not before the end of the Reagan administration he said these of . Troops will eventually be the Only option see Contra on Page 28 tool re Poi poise Washingto drug stores ha1aquafresh to Oij cause of a cynic similar to others around he Maiio  in the old Anide has yet Bec Beecham Prodi the toothpaste Saj Mous phone Cal Headquarters. 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In reaction tows Peanut butter ration he likes it cd with Pean Buffer indu mar Ghal Angl a Peanut butter is Najj grinning the struggle for hearts and up maths i Afghanistan the All american Tai in Olive Green plastic combo option packs is reaching moslem a Trillas fighting the soviet backed communist regime. But Many of the Erie Hlas Are less than enthusiastic a Oujine foreign delicacy. I Don t befit. It is not Good to my Slomach cupid a guerrilla named am do Fot unopened packets of pea Nul Baer from Visalia Calif Dot the the of the insurgent base Here takes awhile to find a guerrilla to admits liking the stuff. I like it because it has Vitamin a Vitamin a Vitamin c and other Good things said a guerrilla named Nazrul Lah who can read English. It does nol taste so bad said the fighter apparently impressed with the food s nutritive qualities listed on icepack. Part of the problem seems to be that no one has explained to the guerrillas that Peanut butter is belter spread on bread than eaten by Ruelf. The oversight is not unusual. Nei ther have the rebels been told to add water to dehydrated peaches and fruit salad also supplied in combat packs. But the guerrillas said that even dry the peaches from Edinburg. Texas and the fruit salad from Albany ore., tasted a lot Ether than Peanut butter. The  and dehydrated fruit sent by . Government to afghan refugee in Pakistan have found their Way Towe guerrillas who Are fighting afghan Over Ament forces and an estimated to 5,000 soviet troops. A . Embassy office Alan Pakistan said the supplies arc Given a the Refu gees As humanitarian Assi Kice and Are nol intended for the Gremb the rebels most of Hommann Oread the English on the packs seemed a Little confused about where the pea nut Butler came from. It comes from China said a guerrilla called Sharah Khan no saudi Arabia said a Friend