The World - News from March 4, 1987

President Reagan called on Congress to approve a $300-million Central America aid package that the lawmakers failed to pass last year due to budgetary restraints. Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams said $100 million would be earmarked for earthquake relief in El Salvador. Of the remainder, Honduras would receive $65 million, El Salvador $55 million, and Costa Rica and Guatemala $40 million each. Abrams said Reagan’s message requests the immediate transfer of $300 million from currently available State Department and Defense Department appropriations. He said the aid package is unrelated to the $40 million the Administration expects to seek in aid to the Nicaraguan contras .