Word: covert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempt to justify the morality of America's covert activity in Nicaragua has become irrelevant. As is evident from your article "Uneasy over a Secret War" [May 16], U.S. operations in Nicaragua have clearly and irreversibly ceased to be covert. To engage in secret actions and be caught is one thing. To persist in this conduct after it has been exposed is something else. The Reagan Administration's policy in Nicaragua may not only be a failure. It also flies in the face of what Thomas Jefferson once described as "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind...
...Catholic missionary working in Latin America, I have firsthand knowledge of anti-American sentiments among the poor. These feelings are the result not of "Communist propaganda" but rather of U.S. covert operations, which have supported repressive military regimes for decades...
...spinning in the U.S. last week. The same day that three American diplomats expelled from Nicaragua landed at Washington's National Airport, 21 Nicaraguan consular officials were ordered to leave the U.S. by the Reagan Administration. That same day as well, a House committee voted to cut off covert aid to anti-Sandinista guerrillas fighting in Nicaragua and based in Honduras. On Friday, U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone stopped in Nicaragua to meet with members of the junta and the Marxist-led Sandinista directorate. Said Stone, in Spanish, on his arrival: "I am interested in carrying out profound conversations...
...some as a triumph for hardliners, congressional Democrats have grown even more uneasy about U.S. support of armed attacks against the Nicaraguan government. Thus last week the House Foreign Affairs Committee, voting almost entirely along party lines, passed a Democratic measure that would stop the millions of dollars in covert military aid now going to anti-Sandinista guerrillas...
...bill stands almost no chance in the Senate, it could pass in the full House despite strong Administration opposition. Even in the Senate, the Select Committee on Intelligence, led by Chairman Barry Goldwater, has approved a measure designed to provide Congress with a mechanism to end funding for all covert operations against Nicaragua. A compromise with the Reagan Administration is not out of the question. But some kind of direct congressional veto over the Administration's covert actions seems closer to reality than ever...