Reagan Pushes Contra Effort
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WASHINGTON — President Reagan today called on House Republicans to help him revive his stalled policy of aid to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, but said Democrats will be to blame if the rebels go out of existence.
The President, in a one-hour meeting with House Republicans on Capitol Hill and later with a group of state and county GOP officials, urged GOP members to unite behind a new effort to push some kind of help for the rebels through Congress.
U.S. aid to the rebels expired Feb. 29.
Reagan, in response to a reporter’s question, declined to say precisely what kind of aid package he was supporting.
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