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Serious negotiations between the U.S. and Nicaragua are far more likely. The central issues: Nicaragua's charges that the U.S. is threatening it with covert action and military invasion, and Washington's contention that the Sandinista regime is directing the left-wing insurgency in El Salvador. Daniel Ortega Saavedra, coordinator of the Nicaraguan junta, traveled to New York City last week to make his government's case before an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council. "Aggressive and destabilizing actions against Nicaragua by the U.S. Administration have been dramatically on the rise," Ortega insisted...
...places like Harvard often fail to address the difference in circumstances. Unmitigated Southern racism sparked the New Left in 1960, and the massive American involvement in Indochina pushed the non-violent protest movement toward self-destructive revolutionary tactics in 1967-1968. The causes today--such as apartheid or covert intervention--are not nearly so clear-cut. And yet the students have acted and will probably step up their resistance if issues of concern become more vividly threatening. Says Anderson: "I think that when the Left makes its resurgence, it will be in response to a number of specific events...
While Washington was seeking to shore up the beleaguered forces of moderation in El Salvador last week, the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua declared a 30-day state of emergency in response to what it called U.S. threats of "aggression" and "covert plans" to undermine the government. The decree suspended most basic civil rights, including freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and the right to a judicial hearing before detention. The Sandinista government has put the press under strict censorship and restricted travel abroad for government officials, military personnel and political figures. In addition, a special new patriotic defense contribution will...
Stories that the U.S. is financing covert operations in Nicaragua play directly into the hands of the Sandinistas. They contribute to the widespread impression that the U.S. is as ham-fisted as ever in its approach to Central America, discourage Washington's remaining friends in the area and seem to justify the Sandinistas in seeking Cuban (if not Soviet) protection. Thus, the publicity may require the Government to review the feasibility of the operation, even though it could be validly considered a proper adjunct to U.S. diplomatic goals. Complained one high Administration official: "The leak was devastating." Indeed...
...Salvador unless negotiations are started. The most comprehensive bill of all was proposed on Friday by Democratic Senators Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts and Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, two of the Administration's leading critics. It would require prior congressional consent for any military aid or covert action in Central America. In practice, this would make covert action all but impossible. Said Tsongas: "We're on the verge of a kind of 1950s intervention policy. The domino theory does work, but we're going to be the ones to knock down that first domino" by driving Central American...