Word: basin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's embrace of the "zero option" on intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe and his Caribbean Basin Initiative of increased aid, trade and investment have won applause from friendly nations. But even these initiatives came late, in response to the pressure of events, and they are far from outweighing the situations that have been allowed to drift. Part of the problem is Haig. The Secretary has always swung between a cool, unflappable demeanor and irascible outbursts. Strangely, even as he has overcome most of his rivals for pre-eminence in foreign policy, the brittle side of his character...
Reagan was able to call attention to one American policy-his Caribbean Basin Initiative of increased American aid, trade and investment-that has been successful in winning friends. On his first stop in Jamaica, Reagan was greeted by crowds of friendly schoolchildren waving American flags, and he mingled happily with eight-and nine-year-old calypso dancers at an airport welcome. Edward Seaga, the pro-business Prime Minister whose election in October 1980 ousted a leftist government, proudly ticked off signs of Jamaica's economic revival: positive economic growth after eight years of slump; the first foreign-exchange surplus...
...insurrections in neighboring countries-namely, El Salvador. In return the U.S. is willing to make a "political declaration" that it will crack down on Nicaraguan exiles said to be plotting counterrevolution from American soil and will even let Nicaragua participate in the trade and investment benefits of the Caribbean Basin Initiative. What will come of the talks is uncertain, but the very fact that the Administration appears willing to deal with a nation that it has often denounced as a budding Marxist-Leninist dictatorship indicates a new flexibility in policy...
...proposed resumption of U.S. economic aid to Nicaragua. The Nicaraguan economy is hurting and the public sector in particular sorely needs the funds it would receive from Washington. In addition, the U.S. plan would make Nicaragua eligible for the trade and investment incentives proposed in President Reagan's Caribbean Basin initiative...
...Salvador proposed that the country's government should "consider options to end the massacre," which was interpreted to mean talking with the rebel leaders. Earlier, an American envoy had flown to Havana for talks with Cuban President Fidel Castro, suggesting to some that the two major Caribbean Basin antagonists might agree to work directly on easing tensions in the region. But beneath these surface signs of flexibility, there remained serious doubts within the Reagan Administration about what might emerge from all these talks about talks, since so much of the interchange between the parties involved depended on the outcome...