Au! Contra-ire!
Call it Contragate, Iranscam, or, as The New Republic recently dubbed it, Iranamok, the current fuss, most political observers claim, makes it unlikely that Congress will grant any more military aid to the Contras. With Democrats taking command of both the House and the Senate, the pundits reason, President Reagan was already going to have a very tough time getting the 100th Congress to go along with Contra aid. But with the Iran scandal centering on the possibly illegal re-routing of arms-sale profits to the Contras, opponents of Reagan’s Central American policy have been kicking up their heels. “Contra aid is dead,” chortled one Democratic leader after the scandal broke.
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