HOUSE UNIT VOTES AGAINST MORE AID FOR EL SALVADOR

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• Publication Date: April 13, 1983
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Meanwhile, Senator Barry Goldwa.
ter, Republican of Arizona, chairman of
the Senate Intelligence Committee,
said today, after his committee was
briefed by William J. Casey, Director of
Central Intelligence, that he was con-
FOR EL SALVADOR fl vented the C.I.A. was not violating bar.
letter or the spirit" of legislation n bar.
ring the agency from t
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throw the Sandinist Government in
Nicaragua.
Operating Within the Law
"There has been a good deal of confu-
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Foreign Affairs Subcommittee by regarding the issue of whether
the C.I.A. is operating within the con.
Also Sets Limit on Help to :sstrainntsofthelaw,"Mr.Goldwatersaid
in a Statement. "I am convinced that no
Anti-Sandinist Rebels such activities are being undertaken by
By MARTIN TOLCHIN
Spatial to The New York nmae
WASHINGTON, April 12 - A House
Foreign Affairs subcommittee dealt a
blow to Administration policies on Latin
America today, voting to reject a re-
quest for additional military funds for
El Salvador and to prohibit United
States aid to Nicaraguan rebels in the
absence of a joint resolution of Con-
gress.
Jr. a spirited session punctuated by a
series of voice votes along party lines,
the group rejected President Reagan's
supplemental request for $50 million in
military aid for El Salvador; reduced
from 1M.3 million to S50 million the
military aid request for fiscal 1984 and
1985. and voted to make United States
aid conditional on further assurances
that American advisers be limited to 55
and that Salvadoran democratic prose.
dures be strengthened.
The subcommittee also adopted a
proposal to prohibit any United States
aid to Nicaraguan rebels "directly or
indirectly" unless specifically re-
quested by the President and approved
by both houses of Congress. The meas-
ures now go to the full committee.
Majority Said to Approve
Representative Michael D. Barnes,
Democrat of Maryland and chairman of
the Western Hemisphere Affairs sub-
committee, said repeatedly that the ac-
tions reflected the views of a majority
of the Congress.
But Representative Henry J. 'Hyde,
Republican of Illinois, said that in a sin-
gle day "we have rendered vulnerable
the de"nucrdtically elected Government
of El Salvador and protected the Marx-
ist Government of Nicaragua."
inc United States Government for the
purpose of overthrowing the Govern-
ment of Nicaragua or for provoking a
military exchange between Nicaragua
and Honduras."
In other developments, Thomas 0.
Enders, Assistant Secretary of State for
Inter-American Affairs, told the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee that the
United States had warned the Soviet
"If America stands for one thing, it
'::ght to be freedom. It ought to provide
glimmer of hope to people in prisons j
`.r, Cuba and Poland, to the Vietnam
--)at people, to the people fighting with
i cks and stones in Afghanistan."
t-teanwhile. addressing the Senate
c' nmiitee, Mr. Enders said that "it is
,nceivable that Cuba or the Soviet
U-lion could be tempted to escalate the
~:.rfiict" in Nicaragua by "introducing
-rMern fighter aircraft or even Cuban
combat troops."
"Clearly a dengerous situation would
_}cn develop," he said, "unacceptable
not only to Central America but to the
American nations as a whole. We have
communicated to Moscow and Havana
how dangerous suclia move would be."
Sandinists Are Criticized
In the past the Reagan Administra.
tion has reported that Nicaragua, with
Soviet and Cuban assistance, was im.
:roving and extending airfields to as I
commodate advanced Soviet fighter,
planes. The Administration has also
aid that Nicaraguan pilots were r -
ceiving advanced training in Bulgaria
e-:d Cuba.
n his testimony, which focused on
?;caragua, Mr. Enders sharply criti-
^iOn and Cuba against sending ad. at he said was its failure to pursue
fighter aircraft to Nicaragua. negotiating proposals made by the
He s -id the Administration had notified United States and other Central Ameri-
.,~ oar and Havana that "a serious can nations.
tion" would develop if they n_ Charging that Nicaragua has re.
eased their military assistance to lected four different attempts to az-
N icaragua with the introduction of the range negotiations about regional con.
thy' aircraft or Cuban combat ' Mr. Enders said, The nu_
tas have made their contempt for for genu-
ine Y p` ine dialogue - for real negotiations --
tending the House subcommittee quite clear."
Sinn James H. Michel, Deputy Mr. Enders also defended anti-Gov.
`:.c,isTant Secretary of State for Inter- ernment forces in Nicaragua,
ican Affairs, declined to give as. the- enjoyed broad-basesupport
-vrances that the Administration was within Nicaragua. While refusing to
'tiding by the charter of the Organza- comment on whether the United States
of American S-
,totes, which prohtb-
intervention to undermine the gov.
;r~rnentof a member state.
M. Michel insisted that "the intel `
Bence committees are the appropria
"
m
for a discussion of the United
:;,Later role in Nicaragua. But he added
that "the United States is not acting in
~,?o ation of U.S. law, to the best of my
! .n'lwiedge."
Operations Called Illegal
Representative Gerry E. Studds,
:.emocrat of Massachusetts, replied,
"The O.A.S. charter is a .treaty and is
one law of the land."
"The covert operations are about as
covert as this markup session," he said,
adding, "In addition to being illegal,
inept and unnecessary, it's doomed to
failure."
Mr. Studds said that such operations
were doomed "because they were out of
character for the American people."
But Mr. Hyde countered:
rebels, Mr. Enders said the anti-Gov.
ernment forces "are Nicaraguans to
the core.,'
Mr. Enders also provided the com-
mittee with new information about
arms shipmentst that the Adm,in:crra.
tion asserts the Soviet U and Cuba
-have sent through Nicara,a
g u to guerril-
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