The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 4, 1986 - Page 7 Reagan calls for aid to Nicaraguan rebels From AP and UPI President Reagan stepped up his campaign to assist anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua, calling for more aid to the Contras and entering into joint U.S.-Honduran military exer- cises that neighboring Nicaragua has perceived as a threat. Reagan called on Congress yester- day to support $100 million in assistance to the contras saying those who resist will be held "fully accoun- table by history." REAGAN said that if the Sandinista government achieves final victory, it would "open up the possibility of Soviet military bases on America's doorstep, threaten the security of the Panama Canal and inaugurate a vast migration march to the United States by hundreds of thousands of refugees." The president issued his statement in the Cabinet Room as he was flanked by the top leadership of the Nicaraguan resistance forces and by more than two dozen U.S. business supporters of the rebel cause. The Contra representation included Adolfo Calero, head of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force; Arturo Cruz, a former Sandinista ambassador to Washington, and Alfonso Robelo, a member of the original Sandinista junta that took power in 1979. All now are leaders of the United Nicaraguan Opposition (UNO). PRESIDENT Jose Azcona of Hon- duras officially opened a new phase of joint U.S.-Honduran military exer- cises that neighboring Nicaragua has charged are a prelude to an invasion. The exercises, called Cabanas 86, are being held in La Mosquita jungle near the Honduran-Nicaraguan bor- der and are the first such joint military exercises since last August. Azcona, sworn into office Jan. 27 af- ter winning last November's presidential election, officially opened the first stage of the Cabanas 86 maneuvers, the Honduran gover- nment said. The president traveled to the area of the exercises and witnessed military transport planes parachuting machinery and construction materials into the jungle area, some 25 miles from the Nicaraguan border, Honduran military spokesmen said. Some 500 U.S. military engineers from Fort Bragg, N.C., arrived by ship at the nation's Caribbean coast and headed toward the village of Mocoron, in the Gracias a Dios province, where they will build a lan- ding strip scheduled to be completed in a month. There was no immediate infor- mation on the number of troops from either nation participating in the exercises, their duration, or the type of weaponry to be utilized. Daily Photo by ANDI SCHREIBER Hot Sand A couple enjoys the late afternoon sun and infrequent solitude of a Ft. Lauderdale beach during spring break last week. U.S. fears for Philippine bases, panel says (Continued from Page 1) legitimacy by prosecuting those who committed election crimes. "This will allow her to move legitimately against the war lords, and she can move while she still has the support of the military." THE UNITED States is relying on berger, and President Reagan pressured Marcos to step down, they continued to support General Fidel Ramos and Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, who both occupied top positions under Marcos. The United States sees Ramos and Enrile as reformers who will streamline the Philippine military, enabling it to protect U.S. military bases from communist rebels in the islands. However, Melinda Quintos de Jesus warns that "we tend to put Enrile and Ramos as two of a kind, and they're not."sRamos has no political am- bitions, while Enrile has strong political ambitions, she said. PANELISTS said that the United States was worried by the doubling over the past year of the New Peoples' Army (NPA), which is the military arm of the communist insurgency. During that same time, the NPA in- creasingly sought confrontations with government troops, panelists said. Panelist Melinda Quintos de Jesus, a Philippinie journalist who is visiting the University, pointed out, however, that Ramos, who is now Aquino's Defense Minister, does not think the communist insurgency is a military problem, but a social and political problem. She predicted that the in- surgency may decrease its militaristic character. "There will be a regrouping of the NPA. If the military plays its cards in the manner exemplified by Ramos or the revisionist officers there would be an accommodation of both parties away from an explosive situation,," Quintos de Jesus said. AQUINO HAS the potential to un- dercut the popularity of the NPA, said McRoy. "The more she reforms, moves leftwards in administering, the less active and large the NPA will be." However, McRoy points out, while Aquino is repeatedly talking of recon- ciliation with the left, Shultz is in- creasingly hostile to the NPA. Edilberto de Jesus said that a year ago, analysts thought that the NPA would come into plower within five years, unless the situation changed. Marcos supporters protest new policies i (Continued from Page 1) IT WAS the first major incident in- volving rebels of the 16,000-strong New People's Army and security for- ces since Aquino assumed power. Aquino has said she would propose a cease-fire with the rebels. Laurel announced plans to start work on a new constitution hours after thousands of people gathered in Manila and seven other cities to protest orders that pro-Marcos governors and mayors be replaced with presidential appointees, avoiding the electoral process. Also yesterday a judge froze $350 million in New York properties believed owned by Marcos in the first step of a legal fight to recover "wealth that properly belongs to the Philip- pine people," lawyers said. LAWYERS working for Aquino filed suit in Manhattan against Marcos, his wife Imelda and 20 other people and corporations in order to recover the holdings, including a palatial Long Island estate. de Jesus ... proposes solutions two former Marcos supporters to streamline the military and protect U.S. military bases in the country from the communist insurgency, said panelist Alfred McRoy, a visiting ex- pert on the Philippines. McRoy said that although several top U.S. officials, - including Secretary of State George Schultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Wein- The lawyers at the Center for Con- stitutional Rights - representing Aquino without fee - claim Marcos has $7 billion in holdings in the United States, $350 million of which is in New York City and on Long Island. 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THE CASE began April 26, 1983, when Fraser, then a 17-year-old senior at Bethel High School, nominated a friend for school office at an assembly attended by some 600 students. The four-paragraph speech used no obscenities, but school of- ficials concluded it was sexually suggestive and disruptive. Typical of the speech was a portion promoting the candidate by saying he "is a man who will go to the very end, even the climax, for each and every one of you." The speech was met by hoots and hollers from the students and some students simulated sexual acts. THE SCHOOL district brought the case before the justices in an effort to overturn a March 1984 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the punishment meted out to student Matthew Fraser, including a three- day suspension, for giving the speech was unconstitutional. 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