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...advice of those who doubted the wisdom of a decisive policy based on the strategic considerations I have outlined. One camp favored a low-key treatment of El Salvador as a local problem and sought to cure it through limited military and economic aid, along with certain covert measures. In that camp were Vice President Bush, Defense Secretary Weinberger, Director of Central Intelligence Casey (with reservations), National Security Adviser Allen and most of the others. Together with Baker and Deaver, Meese was the leading voice for caution and slow decision. Meese's keen legal mind detected the risks; his deep...
Other Administration policies got mixed reviews. U.S. covert activities in Central America drew fire from the majority ("We should not be helping bloody, corrupt dictatorships"), as did President Reagan's arms policy ("He seems to be heading us toward nuclear death...
...house that specializes in Russian literature. Currently one of the most visible writers in exile, Dovlatov is a regular contributor of fiction to The New Yorker. Last fall a collection of short pieces, The Compromise, was published by Knopf. The tales are conspicuously devoid of the anger, overt and covert, that characterizes many émigrés' writing about their native country; Dovlatov's stories gently ridicule the obtuseness of the Soviet bureaucracy and the mendacity and corruption that invade everyday life. In The Compromise the author comically contrasts the news stories written by a Soviet journalist with...
...Nicaragua, the Commission upholds President Reagan's view that the presence of a Soviet and Cuban backed government imperils regional security. It demands the return of the Nicaraguan Revolution to its democratic course and the end to Communist meddling in the area. Towards that goal the panel supports continued covert aid to the Contras as an incentive for the Sandinistas to grant greater freedom at home and negotiate a regional security settlement...
Nicaragua has become a mecca for Americans who reject the Reagan Administration's policy of saber rattling and providing covert aid to the contras seeking to overthrow the leftist Sandinista government. Several hundred American residents of Nicaragua lend the government their expertise in such fields as agriculture, health, culture and industry. In addition, "solidarity" groups in the U.S. sponsor as many as ten different delegations every month for brief but busy tours of revolutionary life...