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1 Report of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America [i] (1984)

handle is hein.forrel/bipccentam0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CHAIRMAN SENIOR COUNSELLORS: DR HENRY A. KISSINGER REP. MICHAEL D. BARNES .COMMISSION MEMBERS: THE.NATIONAL BIPARTISAN COMMISSION SEP LLYD B E MR. NICHOLAS F. BRADY MAYOR HENRY G. CISNEROS ON CENTRAL AMERICA SEN. DANE . oUE Gov. WILLIAM P. CLEMENTS, JR. SEP. DACILF. KEMP DR. CARLOS F. DIAz-ALEJANDRO AE. JANE KRP MR. WILSON S, JOHNSON M WINSTOKIR MR. LANE KIRKLAND SE. CHA RL MR. RICHARD M. SCAMMON M R. W M . OGER S DR. JOHN SILBER R. JAM C. RIGHT JUSTICE POTTER STEWART Ama ROBERT S. STRAUSS DR WILLIAM B WALSH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AMT T HARRY W. SHLAUDEMAN January 10, 1984 The President The White House Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. President: In establishing the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America, you asked its advice on what would be appropriate elements of a long-term United States policy that will best respond to the challenges of social, economic, and democratic development in the region, and to internal and external threats to its security and stability. The analyses and recommendations in this report seek to respond to that request. However, as we studied the region and its problems -- its crisis -- we found that the long-term challenge also requires short-term actions. In many respects the crisis is so acute, and the time-frame for response so limited, that immediate responses are a necessary element, of any long-tLerm policy. Thus to some extent we have discussed both, though we have tried to place, such short-term recommendations as we make within the framework of a longer-term approach. You also asked our advice on means of building a national consensus on a comprehensive United States policy for the region.. our best advice on this is, I believe, embodied less in the specific language of the report than in its total message, which reflects the extraordinary experience of this Commission. Twelve members, of both political parties and of widely disparate views, studying the situation in Central America with intensity and-dedication over a period of nearly six months, reached a degree of consensus at the end that I think few of us expected at the beginning. The lesson of this experience, I believe, is that the best route to consensus on U. S., policy toward Central America is by exposure to the realities of Central America. 2201 C STREET NW., ROOM 1004. WASHINGTON. D.C. 20520, TEL: (202) 632-7804

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