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...York City last week, Arturo Cruz, Adolfo Calero and Alfonso Robelo, leading members of the opposition to the Sandinistas, made a plea for renewed U.S. support for their movement. Nicaragua has become "a sanctuary for terrorism, a center for subversion," Robelo said. He warned of an ominous domino chain of Communist expansion: "When Mexico finally explodes, it's going to affect California, Texas and beyond...
...that loss inevitable, or could the war have been won with different strategy and tactics? Was the war fought for the right reasons? Did its aftermath prove or explode the domino theory? The questions are not in the least academic. They bear on the all-important problem of whether, when and how the U.S. should again send its troops to fight abroad...
...commitments and so "lost the peace," Nixon contends that his Vietnamization program was a success both in the hamlets and on the battlefield. His assertion that a pro-Western Viet Nam represented a vital U.S. security interest relies less on inherent economic or geopolitical advantages than on the domino theory: he points to Hanoi's present control of Cambodia and Laos and its steady pressure on Thailand. He acknowledges that the cease-fire agreement, which authorized tens of thousands of enemy soldiers to remain and re-arm themselves, inevitably imposed an onerous self-defense burden on South Viet Nam; thus...
Dole's selection as majority leader had a domino effect on key committee chairmanships. Oregon's Bob Packwood, a frequent Reagan critic, will succeed Dole as head of the Finance Committee, wielding power over the Administration's tax-reform plan when and if it is sent to Capitol Hill. "I sort of like the tax code the way it is," Packwood told the Washington Post last week...
...domino theory works in both directions, from the Communist countries knocking down all the dominoes and from the democratic countries doing it too. At this moment, U.S. aid has been at a level at which we can survive. But what if we fail? If we win, we demonstrate that there is a way out for the democratic revolution. Then you have an example for the world. Then the U.S. will have real friends...