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Reagan took office after a long, depressive streak of American history that began with the assassination of John Kennedy and proceeded through the riots and other assassinations of the 1960s, the Viet Nam War, Watergate, Nixon's resignation, the Arab oil embargo, the Iranian hostage crisis. Jimmy Carter was apparently overwhelmed by the presidency. The Club of Rome's Spenglerian predictions about the earth's shrinking resources shadowed the '70s, and Carter at last announced that there was a malaise in the land. The drift was bleak: things would get worse and worse and never get better again. Reagan...
...joined the Committee on Central America(COCA) and began helping to organize educationalsessions, such as slide shows, and demonstrationsprotesting U.S. involvement in Central America. Ata demonstration last spring protesting theAmerican embargo of Nicaragua, Kenworthy wasarrested, along with 550 others. "I was glad tosee there were so many committed people againstthe U.S. policy in Latin America," he saysmatter-of-factly...
...Union, and the country's formidable military forces are armed by Moscow and trained by Cuban and Soviet advisers. The Sandinistas say their sympathies are understandable. Whereas the U.S. mined Nicaragua's harbors, the Soviet Union provided helicopter gunships to combat the contras. When the U.S. imposed a trade embargo, the Soviet Union offered more...
Calling the current U.S. trade embargo of Nicaragua "most counterproductive," Martinez explained that the embargo imposes a $40 to $50 million burden...
...least. American wheat, technology, and investment are very important to the Soviet Union. (The effectiveness of economic sanctions against them, however, is doubted by almost all observers. Indeed, the current crackdown on Jews desiring to emigrate is linked by most Soviet experts to the Carter grain embargo and other souring facets of U.S./Soviet relations. Can we expect the same increase in internal harshness in South Africa as a result of hypothetical sanctions?) But we hear almost nothing, even from the Reagan Administration, about new sanctions against the Soviet Union...