Word: basins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imperil Israel's existence. "This is our country, this is our land," he later added. "Here our civilization was born." But he challenged Mitterrand to launch a peace initiative of his own and to work for a nonaggression pact that would include all the countries of the Mediterranean basin...
...plan to keep the Caribbean Basin out of Cuba's orbit by pulling on its economic bootstraps is rooted in what the President likes to call the "magic of the marketplace." Said he: "It is an integrated program that helps our neighbors help themselves, under which creativity and private entrepreneurship and self-help can flourish." The "centerpiece" is a twelve-year exemption from tariffs on exports to the U.S., the first such trading advantage to be given to any region. Although 87% of U.S. imports from the basin are already duty-free, Reagan hopes that extending free trade will...
...conditions in El Salvador worsen, this outcome seems ever less likely. Admits a top State Department official: "The Caribbean Basin Initiative can't save El Salvador. It can't save Guatemala either. But it can help avoid other El Salvadors." At this turbulent turn, even that would be a major victory. -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Bernard Diederich/Miami and Johanna McGeary/Washington...
...Reagan's definition, the "Caribbean Basin" includes 19 countries with a population of 39 million, stretching from Dutch-speaking Surinam in South America, to the English-speaking Bahamas 2,000 miles away in the Atlantic and Spanish-speaking Guatemala 2,300 miles away in Central America...
...this mood of mounting concern, President Ronald Reagan's Caribbean Basin Initiative speech was the best news the Salvadoran government had received in weeks. Reagan's promises of long-term economic help for the entire Central American region, plus the warning that the U.S. will do "whatever is prudent and necessary to ensure the peace and security of the Caribbean area," noticeably buoyed President Duarte. The Salvadoran leader appeared on television to announce that he had sent his personal felicitaciones to the White House...