POLICIES TOWARD LATIN AMERICA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000606450003-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 14, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PROGRAM Good Morning America
Z)A.E April 14, 1983 7:19 A.M.
SJE,1EC? Policies Toward Latin America
STATION W J L A- T V
ABC Network
Washington, D.C.
DAVID HARTMAN: Gerry Studds is a Democrat, a member of
the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He is one of
concressmen who has voted against President Reagan's policies
tcv;ard Latin America. And he's with Steve Bell in Washington.
We just heard Tom Enders from the State Department say
that cur policies are not illegal toward Central America,
carticularly Nicaragua, that we're not doing anything wrong down
there, that we're trying to get people to the peace table and get
all of the arms and the advisers out of there. What's wrong with
REP. GERRY STUDDS: Well, it's almost academic to have
_7 ciscuss back and forth the fine points as to whether or not
te-\'re currenty violating the so-called Boland Amendment. What
the\ are violating and what, in my judgment, makes this activity
just unarguably illegal is the Organization of American States
charter. That is a treaty commitment of the United States.
Lrider our Constitution, treaties which have been ratified by the
Senate are the supreme law of the land. And there is a sentence
in that treaty that says no state has the right, for any reason
whatever, to intervene in any way, directly or indirectly, in the
internal or external affairs of any other state.
That is the law of the United States. The President is
sworn to see that that law, and the others, be faithfully
executed. And he is, in my judgment and in the judgment of many
of the members of Congress, violating that law, without question.
end I submit that's a very serious matter.
HARTMAN: What do you say, then, about the Cubans, the
-- as Mr. Enders said, the Palestinians, the East Germans who are
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