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20 SOCIALIST ACTION APRIL 1985 weeks, a variety of options have been discussed by the administration, including using various Asian nations as intermediaries for the channeling of funds and weapons.
Honduras also has been pressured to divert part of the aid that it receives from the United States to supply the Nicaraguan rebels with arms and equipment. Honduras had been receiving U.S. funds as part of the "Caribbean Basin" plan in which the U.S. government projected spending several billion dollars to "develop" the region.
Furthermore, the contras continue to receive money from private U.S. sources. White House officials stated recently that wealthy conservative Americans might be encouraged "more directly" to increase that aid. And the CIA has always had the capacity to funnel money directly through these sources without having to undergo congressional scrutiny.
Reagan, in a recent speech to the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, appealed to that body to help finance the Nicaraguan rebels. The rebels, who have been accused of committing a pattern of atrocities by several SAN FRANCISCO-Ray Hooker, member of the Nicaraguan National Assembly, spoke to an audience of over 400 at the Service Employees International Union Hall on March 14.
Hooker thanked the audience for the help North Americans gave in securing his release from the contras who shot, seriously wounded, and kidnapped him last September while he was campaigning as an FSLN candidate in Nicaragua's first free elections.
Three days after his release he was elected with 87 percent of the vote as a representative of the Atlantic Coast, home to Nicaragua's Miskito Indians and Blacks. Hooker is a member of the newly established National Commission for the Formulation of the Autonomy Law for the People of the Atlantic Coast.
"Land will never become the exclusive property of 2 percent of the population," Hooker said as he explained the distribution of Nicaragua's best coastal lands to over 1 million people. 'This situation has been exterminated forever from Nicaragua."
Hooker presented the three cornerstones of Sandinista policy toward the «You don't negotiate for principles, you die for principles."
Atlantic Coast region: political power for Black and Indian peoples, economic power based on the administration of natural resources of the region, and cultural preservation. "The principal of autonomy is part of the philosophy of the revolution, he said. 'Through autonomy the revolution will be carried forward."
Responding to the escalation of rhet-