The World - News from March 23, 1986
Elliott Abrams, U.S. assistant secretary for Latin American affairs, made an unannounced tour of Central America and met with the presidents of Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica, U.S. Embassy officials said in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital. An embassy spokesman said President Reagan asked Abrams to make the trip after the House last week defeated a proposed $100 million in aid to the Nicaraguan contras. Honduran sources said the Reagan Administration believes that El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica are fearful of the military power of the Sandinista government and would move closer to Nicaragua if they thought the United States was abandoning the Nicaraguan rebels.
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