Word: covert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What little attention the U.S. has paid, has been to use the country as a military pawn. To avoid Congressional disapproval over covert military actions in Nicaragua, Reagan requested that the then-Argentina military junta and train anti-Sandinista guerilla to attack from bases in Honderas. The Argentines agreed. But when the country tried to claim the Falkland Islands, America not only dropped its pawn like a hot potato, but supported Britain in the war. Mislead by Reagan, and by their own political naivete, Argentine leaders believed themselves wholeheartedly supported by the United States, an assumption which proved wholeheartedly wrong...
...began in late 1981 as a minor campaign of covert harassment aimed at disrupting Communist subversion in the Western Hemisphere. But last week it was difficult to tell who was more inconvenienced as a result of the Administration's not-so-secret war in Central America, the Sandinista government of Nicaragua or the Reagan Administration...
...operations in the future. His efforts mollified Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, who withdrew his resignation as vice chairman of the Senate intelligence committee. Casey and the Senate committee also agreed on the need for "more thorough and effective oversight procedures, especially in the area of covert action...
...leaders, Edgar Chamorro Coronel, declared to TIME last week that "to achieve a victory we would need not 8,000 fighters, but 25,000, and people to rise up in greater numbers." Nonetheless, the contras can cause trouble for the Sandinistas so long as the U.S. continues to supply covert aid. In Nicaragua's northern Nueva Segovia department, numerous peasants collaborate with the guerrillas, providing food, shelter and information on Sandinista troop movements in the heavily militarized region. While the F.D.N. is unable to occupy settlements for more than a few hours, the contras roamed with relative freedom, despite...
...receive a boost next Sunday, when El Salvador's voters go to the polls for the presidential runoff election between Christian Democrat José Napoleón Duarte and Roberto d'Aubuisson of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). Almost unnoticed amid the clamor over Washington's covert-action policies, the two rivals have been waging a venomous replay of the first-round campaign that ended on March 25, when Duarte won 43.4% of the 1.5 million votes cast, and D'Aubuisson...