European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and strikes sunday february 7,1968 columns James j. Kilpatrick vote weakened sole Force for Nicaragua Reform so be it. The House of representative spoke wednesday night on the Madr of further Aid to the Freedom Fiehs is in Nicaragua. As of March 1, there will be no further Aid to the Freedom fighters � Leas there will be no further Aid that matters. The vote was close 219-211 bul coming close is not enough. By inc decision of the House he unit a slates now has abandoned Hou lands of Brave men and women who were fighting to gain a Chance at Freedom from communist Rule. Yes there is talker a sometime package of humanitarian Aid but such Aid would serve largely to relieve the sandinista regime of an obligation of government. The House has opted for appeasement and appeasement never works. Let us place the blame Otas von will the credit for this wretched Clion squarely where it belongs on the Heads of speaker Jim Wright and such demo cratic colleagues As Dick Gephardt of Missouri Tony Rockho of California and Lee Hamilton of Indiana they were the chief . These democratic liberals won the Vole with a plea to Clec peace a  their naive idea bless their Elci Dine hearts i that with the Contra pressure effectively removed inc sandinista regime somehow will by religion. Ii will be born again. It will renounce its evil ways h will Welcome the contras into a plurals Lic new administration into an Era of free elections free press amnesty for All and an end to tics with the soviet Union. Hallelujah what twaddle the realities if we May judge the future from inc past Are quite the opposite. In the Nan 70 Yean has any communist regime voluntarily surrendered its Powers name one. Come now or. Gephardt Lell us about it. Speak up or speaker Tell us Al out the full1 of civil and human rights in Eastern Europe in Angola in Cuba in Vietnam. This would be a most fascinating Laic to hear. Nicaragua s president Ortega with this decision has been handed everything his heart desires. Relieved of military pressure he becomes free to stall to delay to make further temporary and cosmetic gestures Cal Cuhl cd 10 Lull the Wrights and Gephardt to dreamy slumber then so months or a year hence with inc Contra forces effectively disarmed and rendered Impo tent let us Sec what develops. Under the Arias peace plan the sandinista arc sup posed to turn their backs upon military Aid from the soviet Union. That is a splendid supposition. Do cats turn their Hacks upon Cream Moscow has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into creating in Nicaragua the largest military Force in the whole of Central Amer Ica. Toward what end to defend poor defenceless Nicaragua from invasion by mighty Cosla Rica ,.in Fuff. Nearly or Al Hans on Wert k off 6m or or s meat Whf so Ussen my you 5hquu Jutt 60 Home belter answers instantly suggest themselves. We arc in fur a period of anaesthesia. For a time the soviet presence will appear to diminish. For a Lime opposition newspapers and radio stations will speak up for a Lime the Church will suffer Little oppression. It will be glasnost with a Spanish acc Cal. The Contra forces disarmed will pose no threat. Then inc Hammer will strike and the sickle will reap. The Promise of genuinely free elections somehow will be put off. La Prensa s allotment of newsprint some How will dwindle. By one Means or another inc Sandi nistas Aid to mar isl rebels in a Salvador will be resumed. After a further period we May expect the return of cuban. East German and soviet advisers to the so reels of Managua. And after that this is the infernal mischief of the wednesday night Vole. It absolutely refuses the Only Forte that might have compelled genuine reforms. Ocl us be certain on this Point once the contras have been crippled they cannot be made whole again. You cannot amputate a Man s legs apologise for the surgery and then Tell him to get Back in the race. Or. Wright and or. Gephardt mean no harm they have nothing but the Best intentions they certainly do nol desire to see a soviet naval and air base in our hemisphere. The Contra deserved better doctor. Let the record show thai president Reagan did everything in his Power to keep the Contra cause �1ive and by caching. His final proposal gave the House every Opportunity that reasonably could have been asked the puny s3.7 million in military Aid would have been kept in escrow to be dispatched Only with further con Gressional approval. Reagan would have sheathed a sword nol scrapped it. It is time to Send umbrellas to 207 democrats and to republicans in the House. When the ram comes and in will come in will fall first of All on them. Flora Lewis House vote Rusf one Force pressing sandinista _ _. .___.,. A.  i. R.ri.,. Al