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When Congress appeared ready to resume military funding in October 1986, North proposed that the CIA purchase the Project Democracy assets, which he listed as including six aircraft, warehouses, ships, boats, houses and a 6,520-ft. airstrip in northern Costa Rica. The price tag: $4.5 million. North even seems to have engaged in near blackmail when officials in Costa Rica threatened to close this airstrip. After consulting with Elliott Abrams, the top State Department official on contra policy, and Lewis Tambs, U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, North reported that he called Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez to threaten...
...Soviet bloc is now in the process of consolidating a second base in the Americas, this time on the mainland, in contiguity with Costa Rica and ultimately Panama to the south, and with Honduras, El Salvador and ultimately Mexico to the north. That the Sandinista revolution is without frontiers is not a hypothetical notion. It is historical. In the first years of their rule the Sandinistas poured considerable effort into the Salvadoran insurgency, which hoped to pull off a victory before the inauguration of Ronald Reagan. That attempt failed, but not for lack of trying. The Sandinistas have been more...
...Soviet brigade in Cuba intolerable. Reagan declared the crackdown on Polish Solidarity intolerable. And the intolerable endured, despite the brave words. To be serious about containing Sandinista subversion -- overt and covert -- will mean vigilance, resources and risk. It will mean everything from pouring aid into El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica to establishing a ring of American bases around the border of Nicaragua; even, as Walter Mondale suggested during the 1984 campaign, to setting up a naval blockade to contain the Sandinistas. But why is it preferable so hugely to commit American resources? To station permanently American troops to serve...
...peasant army that wants to overthrow its own government. That army believes that its country has been taken over by Leninists who have shut down the opposition, destroyed a free press, repressed the church and run a secret police "advised" by Cubans and East Germans. As the President of Costa Rica put it, the "Nicaraguan people . . . have fought so hard to get rid of one tyrant, one dictator, and seven years later they have nine...
Jack Corrigan of WEEI radio told Costa that the decision was a "black mark" against Harvard...