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...Ronald Reagan, Nicaragua is a "cancer" in the Western Hemisphere, a potential Soviet "beachhead" in North America, a haven for dope smugglers and terrorists. The country is in the grip of "an outlaw regime" of Marxist-Leninists who torture pastors and burn down synagogues. Left to fester, Reagan warned the nation last week, the Nicaragua of Sandinista Leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra will become a "second Cuba"--worse, a "second Libya, right on the doorstep of the United States...
WASHINGTON--President Reagan, seeking public pressure on Congress to approve $100 million aid for "virtually defenseless" Nicaraguan rebels, declared yesterday evening that the funds are needed to "deny the Soviet Union a beachhead in North America...
...this critical moment. The bright colors have faded. The sheer joy of possessing power has lost some luster. The men and women in Reagan's Cabinet are, with the possible exceptions of Education Secretary William Bennett and Attorney General Edwin Meese, centrists devoted to preserving and enlarging the beachhead won in the first term. Their passion has cooled with experience, extreme ideology has given way to accommodation. The controversy that followed Haig, Watt and Donovan has been replaced by the solid sense of Shultz, Hodel and Brock. If the Cabinet members are not flamboyant, they are competent. If they...
...Citicorp's competitors, Chase Manhattan (assets: $87 billion), also branched out last week. The bank established a beachhead in Ohio by agreeing to buy two small thrifts, Mentor Savings Bank in Mentor and Federated Savings Bank in Cincinnati. Both were among the 69 savings and loans temporarily closed last month in Ohio...
...assembling a fleet of 39 warships for counteraction on the other side of the isthmus. On D day next Tuesday, 2,000 Marines will storm ashore from amphibious assault craft onto an isolated strip of sand near Puerto Castilla, on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. They will secure a beachhead for troops of the Army's 101st Airborne Division, who will be flown in by helicopter the following day. By the end of next week, about 10,000 American troops will have gone into action throughout Honduras, a nation the size of Tennessee. In one operation, U.S. and Honduran soldiers...