I ask you to consider whether it Is safer or more dangerous for the people of the regionand indeed. all of Latin Americato have a conflict inside Nicaragua which slows or stops the establishment of a SovietCuban military base or to allow unfettered the completion of such a base which. by Its very size and capability and historic parallel. projects power and violence outward (as in the support of Communist rebels in El Salvador or. with the M19 terrorists. in Colombia. or in the training and arming of Communist revolutionaries) for export. Maybe we should ask the East Europeans whether proximity to Soviet military bases has had an Impact on their national and personal lives. Finally. is the United States safe or endangered by a new SovietCuban base on the Central American land bridge so close to our borders. so capable of subversion. among our nearest southern neighbors. so involved with the international terrorist movement. so certain to create the vast refugee stream northward. so ready to project Soviet air and naval power in the Caribbean and up along our west coast. For the answer there. we need only look at the island of Cuba serving as the U.S.S.R.s operations base in this hemisphere. and its support forsubversion. and Soviet overflights or our east coast. Its supply of proxy troops and military advisers for hemispheric and worldwide ventures of violence.