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...will even let Nicaragua participate in the trade and investment benefits of the Caribbean Basin Initiative. What will come of the talks is uncertain, but the very fact that the Administration appears willing to deal with a nation that it has often denounced as a budding Marxist-Leninist dictatorship indicates a new flexibility in policy...
...choice, as In El Salvador, between a right-wing dictatorship and a Marxist dictatorship. I would fight both. Dictatorship is dictatorship, independent of its color...
...National Security Council last November, Reagan approved approximately $19 million to recruit, train and supply a small military force, in conjunction with certain right-wing governments in Latin America, including Argentina. Some of the money was earmarked for support of groups inside Nicaragua that are opposed to a Sandinista dictatorship. Both the House and Senate Intelligence committees were informed late last year of the Administration's covert plan to weaken Nicaragua...
Mind-set too was involved in misjudging the Sandinistas who took over Nicaragua when the Somoza dictatorship collapsed. In a remarkable article in the Washington Journalism Review, Shirley Christian, Pulitzer-prizewinning correspondent for the Miami Herald, analyzes with more "soul-searching" than anger how the New York Times, Washington Post and CBS covered the story in the crucial years...
...often in recent months because, it appears, of the weekly's growing distrust of the news coverage of the El Salvador war: Columnist Cliff Kincaid drawn an interesting parallel. "In terms of inflammatory media coverage and the fact that outside communist powers are trying to impose a Marxist- Leninist dictatorship on an independent nation, El Salvador is another Vietnam...