Word: e1
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...office as the beneficiary of a general rightward shift that permeated attitudes on both domestic and foreign issues, and at a time when events--including the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and U.S. insecurity induced by the hostage crisis--had chilled superpower relations. But the Administration's earlier stridency on E1 Salvador and apocalyptic pronouncements on the Soviets and nuclear war helped, if anything, to sour enthusiasm for its massive military shopping spree, and the apparent drift towards East-West confrontation of some kind was sufficiently unnerving to provoke the first large scale American public discussion of nuclear...
...reasons to oppose registration have emerged. Ronald Reagan's speeches and asides of the weeks since the November election have made it more than clear any new military action will be unjustified. Should a draft follow this registration, it could be for the purpose of fighting wars in Guatemala, E1 Salvador or elsewhere in Latin America. Continuing troubles in the Middle East have made enforcement of the "Carter doctrine" to protect American oil supplies more likely--involvement that would lead only to the useless loss of life and the possibility of nuclear escalation...
...last major difference between AMNLAE and U.S. women's groups is that the former is not interested in building an international feminist movement. The only exception to AMNLAE's nationalist focus is its moral and financial support of female leftist guerrillas in neighboring E1 Salvador. Reyes notes that "these women are going through a similar process to that which we did. And it is in Nicaragua's interests to help groups fighting to establish other Central American socialist states...