Word: contras
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...Howard Baker is not the best chief of staff for Ronald Reagan right now, then who is? Except for the far right, the consensus around Washington is . . . Howard Baker. Despite legislative setbacks, he managed the Reagan White House through its toughest period. He helped Reagan survive the Iran-contra affair. And he worked to keep arms-control talks with the Soviets on track...
...derisive words last week, Ortega repeatedly offered to open direct negotiations with the U.S. Some State Department officials believe Reagan should take him up on it. They think that with Nicaragua under pressure to carry out the peace plan and get Washington to call off the contra war, the U.S. could strike a deal for reduction of Soviet aid and Cuban military advisers to Nicaragua, as well as other steps guaranteeing that Nicaragua will not become the Soviet-Cuban military base that Reagan fears...
...Administration insists Ortega must negotiate not with Washington but with the contras. Ortega just as adamantly refuses to meet with the contras' political leaders; the furthest he will go at the moment is to offer to discuss cease-fire terms and amnesty with contra military commanders in the field...
...reference to the cancellation by Law School officials of Adolfo Calero's speech after a protester (Tufts senior Joshua Laub) tried to attack the contra leader, Orenstein states, "Such panicked reactions [to protests]... stifle free speech on campus." Such logic is unfortunately warped. If the owner of a private forum in which to speak removes that forum, that does not constitute a restriction of free speech. A physical attack upon one who is speaking, however, is a "stifling" of that individual's right to free speech, and hence responsibility for any reaction thereto lies with the attacker...
...against the regime, his role in exposing attempts by Rafsanjani to buy arms from the U.S. in exchange for hostages helped seal his fate. After Hashemi's arrest, his supporters leaked details of Rafsanjani's deals with the U.S. to the Beirut magazine ash-Shiraa, thereby precipitating the Iran-contra scandal...