I fear that. when the Sandinista offensive begins. there will be many innocent civilian deaths. The Sandinistas will claim that the peasants were Contras. when. in fact. all they really were were campesinos who chose to stay near their homes rather than submit to tyranny. The future of the peasants and other Nicaraguans like them. the future of the refugees in Honduras and Costa Rica. and the future of the Contras forces who are willing to bear arms to resist the Sovietstyle tyranny of the 9 Commandantes in Managua are in our hands. I urge all of my colleagues to support aid for the Contras. and to do so without imposing the kind of limitations and requirements that will only extend aid and comfort to the repressive Sandinista government. Mr.
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