SHULTZ SAYS US HAS 'LEGAL RIGHT' TO BACK CONTRAS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000606120062-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: February 23, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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BOSTON GLOBE ~~ ~ ;~~ , ~`~?
~3 February, 1985 ~~~!~~ `'~ -
~hu~tz says US
has `legal right'
Aid" f orb Nicaragua _rebels . pushed=
By William Beecher
Globe Staff . -:
-_-
.- ''~ South Africa, Chile, the Republic
WASHINGTON - In an escalat-.
ing effort to persuade Congress to-
provide funds to the guerrillas
fighting the Sandinista regime in
Nicaragua, Secretary of State'
George P. Shultz yesterday out-
lined amore activist US strategy,
ends in
t
ti
of Korea and the Philippines -all
these brave men and women have
something in common: Thry seek,
independence, freedom and hu-
man rights -ideals which are at
the rnre of democracy and w'~ich
the United States has always
championed: ' he said. The speech
was made available to reporters in
r
for assisting democra
c -- Washington. ''
Central America, Africa. Asia and .. ~ :Administration officials said
_ even in;the Soviet bloc. ' ~ the speech represents a ma}or poll-
"A revolution_is sweeping the cy statement, made at this time
world today, a democratic revolu- even though ft is recognized it will
tion," Shultz declared in a speech -not sit well with Moscow on the
before the Commonwealth Club in - eve of the resumption of arms con-
: San Francisco. The>United .States. trot talks in?Geneva: ~- = -- '
`_ he said,--has both 'a legal ,right .::. They conceded that an impor-
-and a moral obligation" to encour- 'tant element in the timing is the'.
gage such movements by a variety Administration's effort to .con-!,
' of means shaped to fit differing ?.since Congress to release.$14 mil-'
circumstances. - ' ~ ~ lion in funds for the so-called con-
..While insisting the United ` era.guerrillas in Nicaragua. .~
States .prefers peaceful means, In a news conference Thursday
Shultz said .them are situations: ..night, .President .Ronald Reagan
_" afiere forceful measures may be " `said the contra campaign is neces-
necessary: `~` ' ~ nary to force Nicaragua to yell
-- "The Solidarity movement in "uncle'"..and permit the sort of po-
!Poland: resistance forces in -pf- litical pluralism it promised when
ghanistan, in Cambodia, in Nica- it overthrew the Somoza dictator- ~,
. ragua, in Ethiopia and 'Angola:,.`; shtp in 1979.
..dissidents in the Soviet Union and Shultz too focused ~ consider-
Eastern Europe; advocates of
;,peaceful- democratic :change in
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