JACK ANDERSON'S WASHINGTON LETTER

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2010
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• Publication Date: October 1, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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JACK ANDERSON'S
INC
October 1985 Update
EXCERPTED
ASK JACK ANDERSON
A Los Angeles, Calif. subscriber writes regarding the abandon-
ment of the Miskito Indian fighters in Nicara ua: "You know
as well as I do that Con ress cut off the funds to the CIA and
that Congress and not the CIA is to be blamed for this tra-
gedy. Why don't you place the blame where it belongs... namely,
on liberals such as you who have been critical of American sup
port of the Freedom Fighters in Nicaragua?"
True, Congress discontinued aid to the Contra forces in
Nicaragua after May, 1984. However, in June of this year
Congress voted $27 million in humanitarian aid (food, medicine
and clothing). But my reporter in Central America found
several weeks later that the Misura forces (including
Miskitos) still were receiving poor medical care and food
supplies; several had not received adequate medical treatment
since 1983-84. (Perhaps I should add that I have been a sharp
critic of the Marxist regime in Nicaragua. I support Presi-
dent Reagan's aims if not all his methods.)
FOREIGN OUTLOOK: PASS THE AMMUNITION
Mal de mer. The French government belatedly admitted its
responsibility for the sinking of the anti-nuclear protest
ship Rainbow Warrior, in which one man died. My intelli-
gence sources report a disturbing "So what?" attitude among
. an a ie intelligence circles toward what can on y e
described as state-sponsored seems to
be that the French had every right to take drastic action to
protect what they viewed as their national interests. If this
is indeed the attitude of responsible intelligence officials,
that pretty 7scar7.
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Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasir Arafat has
AIDS. DOUBTFUL.
Hints
of
this possibility have tantalized Israeli intelli-
gence.
But
so far it doesn't seem likely. For example, he
escaped
the
Israeli bombing of his Tunis headquarters because,
he said,
he
was out jogging on the beach. And he certainly
looks as fit as ever in recent photographs. Arafat has been
suspected for years of being a homosexual; he has taken some
pains to quash the rumor by being seen in public with various
women. My intelligence sources think he's probably gay. But
the clo s come to putting it in writ-
that said it would be
oversimplification to call him "weak, vain and effeminate."
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