Chairman. the BarnesHamilton proposal is a farce. It does absolutely nothing to foster democracy in Nicaragua or in Central America. As an answer to Communist aggression. it offers an incentive. an inducement to innocent Nicaraguan citizens to flee the offending tyrants in their homeland and to accept and depend upon U.S. refugee assistance in other nations. Furthermore. it provides wholly unneeded money for diplomatic cocktail parties and the like for participants in the Contadora process. I am not sure that the 3.500 political prisoners who are being tortured and Jailed under subhuman conditions in Nicaragua will thank us if BarnesHamilton passes.