ment support for the America, writes NICK ADAMS.
was allegedly dinistas.
He further revealed that a Foreign Office official had attended the recent Cotference in London which Was addressed by Arturo Cruz, a leading contra ter111LA Foreign Office claims that no official support was imby LEeS Foulkes said 'they must Look were loldly laye. They are just putting up excuses.
The evidence of inBritish CICONCU difLulle He castle ficulties for the contra terrorists. The so-called FURTHER EVIDENCE of direct British governNicaraguan contras was revealed by Labour's foreign affairs spokesperson last week. Speaking in the House of Commons on Thursday 11 December, George Foulkes charged aiming to establish a 'provisional government' in opposition to the San'Irangate' revelations in the United States have shown conclusively that the US government was financing the contras at the very Congress had ruled against such aid. les Aspin. US Congressional represenhead the House of Representatives Armed Services Commitree shone conscere• cod the revelations were bound to damage the prospects for continued aid' His feelings were backed up by leader. present uproar wwic us very much' he declared. worried As an article in the 27 Novermber the Sandinista daily, Barricada, explained the secret White House funding demonstra the is administration to ace outside both its own and international laws in order try to overturow Sandinista Peoples's 'The (Reagan) administration is not try"exert pressure' the stresses but Barricada stressed, rather seeking to destroy the Sandinista revolution Barricada goes on show that the revelations have exposed the lie that the Sandinistas rorists'. Top White House officials have been supplying murder Nicaraguan civilians. This exposes the 'real terrorist' And Barricada ed that the revelations expose another lie - that the contra aggression is a civil war', supposedly fueled by deep discontent with Sandinista policies. firms, the contrary, said for years: that the war is a mercenary operation — run from the outside whith no popular base of outside activity escalated last week. Some 1500 mercenaries have involved been days of fighting along the Honduran border.
The mercenary force was trying to get into sabotage actions. They are fully backed by US troop and air support. Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega, said on 3 December that US troops Honduras had moved miles of the Ninara guagubor in the tes Jaquith in the windy socialist newsweekly, The 'Ortega warned that the situation was "genuinely grave. It turn into a direct controntation with US troops"?
Five days later two planes took off from the Palmerola air base in Honduras and bombed the of Wiwili LOWI Jinotega, 15 miles inside 'Everything indicates that the planes were North American' said Miguel d'Escoto, Nicaraguan foreign affairs Honduran radio stations claimed that the air attack was aimed to prevent Nicaraguan incursion into Honduran territory. Americans for some time now have been trying to provoke a border incident between the sister republic of Honduras and the Sandinista Popular Army' d'Escoto explained.
Despite the defeat suffered by the mercenaries in the latest fighting, similar incidents are bound to be repeated. Honduran foreign ministry official, Roberto Suazo Tome was reported in The Independent, , 10 December, as saying that the policy of the • government is to 'maintain this situation of crisis and abnormality without aching a war'. This would, of course, allow the US adcontinuous opportunity to intervene, picking the occasion they consider appropriate.
Socialist Action 19 Dec 1986
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the government of supporting terrorism in central He revealed that a representative of the British embassy in Costa Rica had attended a conference on 24 November of contra forces and others. The