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CIA-RDP90-00552R000404760005-7
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WASHINGTON TINES
6 NAT 1983
O'Neill bad Nicaraguan aid acn
Speaker.Tttomas O'Neill. D-Mass.,said yesterday
he supports a bill that would end all covert support for .
Nicaraguan rebels and expects the House to hold a
closed session to discuss the move, strongiv apposed .
by President Reagan.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee tentatively
set hearings next week on the bill. apiroved Tuesday
.ona.straight party line by the Houselntelligence
Committee, to cut off U.S. aid to the -guerrilla forces
--opposed to the Marxist Sandinista government of
Nicaragua.
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