MICHEL are doing and I ask my colleagues to give overwhelming support to it. It should be clear to everyone. that the HamiltonBarnes amendment is the very same donothing resolution they offered in April: No help for the resistance. Just international refugee aid. This is worse than no support for the resistance: It specifically excludes from our help those men and women - hope that we can take positive action who are risking the most in the cause to stabilize the Central American of freedom. region. The way to do this is not by Lets repeal the Boland amendment. isolating Nicaragua from ourselves and defeat the Gephardt amendment and other nonCommunist countries. but send a strong signal to Central Amer- by seeking boldly to open it up.