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If the decision holds through later votes, it would mark a major defeat for the president’s policies in Central America. But still to come in the Democratically controlled House was an equally close vote on a watered-down Republican alternative, on which Reagan has staked his hopes in the toughest con gressional battle of his second term. That plan, sponsored by House Minority Leader Robert Michel, R-Ill., would allow Reagan to spend $14 million on non-lethal assistance to the insurgents, to be administered by the U.S. Agency for International Development, and not the Central Intelligence Agency. The House votes came on the second day of debate on the divisive Nicaraguan issue. The debate followed Monday’s rejection of Reagan's original plan to provide direct military aid to the contras seeking to overthrow the leftist San dinista government. The Democratic alternative, which seeks to shift the focus of U.S; policy away from the rightist contras supported by Reagan since 1981, has been sharply attacked by the president. The plan specifically prohibits any military help for the contras and provides for eventual economic sanctions, encourages negotiations among nations in the Central American region and would give speedy handling by Congress to a future Reagan proposal for contra assistance if the Sandinistas refused to negotiate seriously toward an end to the civil war. The money for the refugees would be ad ministered by either the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees or the International Red Cross. The proposal would give no diplomatic or political recognition to the contras, a key element in Reagan’s Central American policy. In a letter to Michel. Reagan said the pro posal would encourage the contras “to leave Nicaragua and become refugees in other countries." Moreover, the president said, "it relieves pressure on the Sandinistas while at the same time, it increases the burdens on the neighboring democracies.” In sharper criticism. Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ul., said, "It says to people who are willing to die for their freedom, we won’t help you, but we will help you to flee. . . It’s disarmament, it's disarma ment, it's surrender.” But Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and one of the chief sponsors of the alternative, said, "This pro posal shifts U.S. policy away from militarization to a diplomatic and economic strategy." Armed forces begin exercises near Nicaragua’s west border PUERTO CASTILLA, Honduras (AP) — U S. Marines landed Wednesday on a beach 150 miles west of the Nicaraguan border as part of an am phibious exercise designed to give combat train ing to 7,000 American military personnel. Rear Adm. Ralph Hedges, commander of the operation, said the exercise represented the “future of warfare” in the Caribbean because such efforts will require the joint efforts of all U.S. services. “Everything went off as planned,” he said, adding that the worst injury was a wrenched knee suffered by a Marine. The first landing craft reached the beach about 7 a.m. CST, according to a report provided by the pool of journalists set up by the Defense Department to cover the exercise. The reporters landed with the third wave of landing craft. The 750 Marines that first landed on the beach were to be relieved Wednesday by an Army battalion from the 101st Airborne Division, arriv ing in helicopters borrowed from the Marines. The exercise is to last two weeks. Without the use of Marine helicopters, the Army unit had been faced with the embarrassing prospect of arriving at the mock battle in a convoy of yellow school buses. The Army last week grounded its fleet of new Blackhawk troop carrying UH-60 helicopters following recent fatal crashes. The exercise, called Universal Trek '85, is the largest ever held in Honduras and is designed to integrate Marine, Navy. Air Force, Coast Guard and Army forces that might be used against guer rilla forces in the Caribbean. In a briefing aboard the USS Nassau, a helicopter carrier that served as the flagship for the 9-ship Navy task force, Hedges said the exer cise would build on lessons learned from U.S. in vasion of Grenada in October 1983. For safety reasons, the maneuvers were stag ed in full daylight rather than at dawn and no live firepower was used. Hedges said. “We don’t want anyone groping around in the dark,” Hedges said. “Safety is paramount. We don’t want to get anybody hurt out there.” The scenario for the exercise assumed that resistance by hostile forces would be quickly broken at the beach and at a nearby airstrip, which was taken by Marines in helicopters. It also was assumed that guerrillas in the mountainous jungle along the coast would offer further resistance. After relieving the Marines, the Army unit is to move into the jungle areas for training in counterinsurgency. Two 100-foot-long Honduran naval vessels operated with the U.S. fleet, concentrating on keeping the invasion area free from local shipp ing. Californian to be lottery contestant PORTLAND (AP) — The most outspoken critic of California’s overdue lottery intends to be among the first here Thursday to play the Oregon games, which are similar to those com ing to California in September. Assemblyman Dick Floyd, a Democrat from Hawthorne, Calif,, flew to Portland Wednes day on the eve of Oregon's lot tery kickoff to ask officials how they were able to meet their deadline.
