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...Marxist-led Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, which he says is "on the right side of history," and withdrawing all troops from the region. On the other hand, he does not rule out sending U.S. troops to the Persian Gulf in the event of a Soviet invasion, and he favors covert U.S. support of Afghan rebels against the Soviets...
...developing years under apartheid." (He grew up in South Carolina.) His Third World sympathies make him highly skeptical of U.S. involvement abroad ("too often we are aligned with the landed gentry, the dictator, the oppressor"), and sometimes too forgiving of the excesses of revolutionary causes. He condemns U.S. covert operations in Central America as "a form of terrorism," but finds such lawless regimes as Muammar Gaddafi's Libya and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia merely "distasteful...
...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...
This alone, however, will not be enough to handle the far more serious underlying problem. No oversight arrangement will work, nor will any program to rebuild America's covert capabilities work, until a way can be found to dissipate the corrosive mistrust and suspicion that has built up between Casey's CIA and Congress...
...charges have been difficult to verify, since foreign journalists have been barred from the troubled area and the local press is government controlled. Reporters have had to rely on sporadic accounts by refugees and occasional covert excursions into the curfew area to talk to locals. A Western diplomat told TIME last week that the British press reports had exaggerated the stories of killings and massacres in the territory. He said there had been a few hundred deaths as a result of army atrocities in recent months, but not the thousands some have alleged...