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...covert U.S. operation slowly spins out of control...
Nicaragua's war jitters are being fueled by the country's increasingly edgy, leftist Sandinista regime. Managua, however, has received a boost from a U.S. covert operation that began modestly enough as an effort to cut off the arms flowing through Nicaragua to leftist guerrillas in El Salvador, but that now appears to have grown into an attempt to topple the Sandinista government. As a result, the border between Honduras and Nicaragua has suddenly become a tinderbox where a few skirmishes could easily erupt into a full-scale shooting war. Even if war does not break out, critics...
...Communism is destined to end up on the ash heap of history, combined with a presidential call for a crusade against Communism; the Administration's military buildup; official statements and leaked documents suggesting that the Administration is seriously preparing for the possibility of nuclear war; reports of stepped-up covert action by the CIA against Soviet clients around the world...
...three-man panel behind closed doors. But the members, sensing the intensity of Israeli interest in the subject, ignored Sharon's repeated appeals for privacy and continued to interrogate him for 2½ hours. Only later in the day, when Sharon discussed such sensitive matters as the covert dealings between the Israeli government and the Lebanese Forces, the Phalangist-dominated coalition of Christian militias, did the panel members allow him to testify for an additional three hours in private session...
Carter had used his aide Hamilton Jordan to work with two secret emissaries, Argentine Businessman Hector Villalon and French Lawyer Christian Bourguet, in conducting covert negotiations with Iranian officials for freeing the Americans. The talks had often looked promising, but repeatedly failed when the erratic Khomeini refused to order that control of the hostages be transferred from their militant captors to his government. After the rescue attempt, little progress was made until Algerian diplomats agreed to serve as official intermediaries between the U.S. and Iran. Through this channel, complex legal questions involving the disposition of the frozen Iranian assets were...