Our allies among the Contadora group and the support group have made it quite clear that our assistance to the Contras does not help their efforts to negotiate with the Sandinistas. Negotiation or an assuredly escalating level of fighting is our choice today. The HamiltonRichardson amendment seeks to remove an impediment to a negotiated settlement while recognizing our responsibilities to those made refugees by the fighting. It seeks to provide the Contadora process with the moral and material support it needs to fairly test its ability as a vehicle for a political solution to the varied concerns of our Latin American neighbors. I do not believe that our current Nicaraguan policy gives that kind of test.
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