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Nicaragua has been torn by strife ever since Sandinista guerrillas overthrew the U.S. backed government of Anastasio Somoza three years ago. The United State, has tried to undermine the leftist government by providing covert aid to rebels fighting the Sandinistas...
...Administration faces another difficult selling job in persuading the rebellious Congress to go along with its policy of overt aid to the government of El Salvador and covert help to opponents of the government in Nicaragua. In this foreign policy thicket, Democratic opposition is the most serious obstacle. Still, even the Republican-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted in March to slash in half the $60 million in military aid that Reagan wants to switch from Morocco to El Salvador. The President has also asked for an additional $50 million in military funds for the Salvadoran government. The Senate committee...
...correction deserves another. Kenneth Adelman is busy as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He hung by his thumbs for two months while a group of Senators played President, not their job. They were rebuked, and Adelman was confirmed. Reagan's covert operations in Central America got more attention than he anticipated and slowed him down in using the CIA in Nicaragua and sending more military advisers to El Salvador. But Reagan will have another say this week in a speech before a joint session of Congress...
Throughout the discussions, however, officials from both sides retained significant but friendly differences. The U.S. visitors underscored Washington's conviction that the Marxist-led guerrilla insurgency in El Salvador, which is now in its fourth year, is part of a subversive wave that is covertly backed by the Soviet Union and Cuba as well by Nicaragua. They explained that the U.S.'s increasingly controversial policies in the region, including economic and military support for El Salvador and sponsorship of a covert insurgency against Nicaragua, are a response to that provocation. Secretary of State Shultz, said a senior...
...MANY liberals in this country argue that the Sandinistas haven't been given a chance. Although Carter doled out more than $200 million in funds to Nicaragua in 1980, the Reagan Administration quickly cut all American assistance and hinted that an invasion--either covert or overt--might be imminent. The Sandinistas, the liberals believe, have simply been forced to react to this pressure by seeking help from Moscow and Havana and engaging in a military build...