Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contra campaign that could end by dragging the U.S. into a Viet Nam-style war in Central America. The mining has deepened their skepticism, and shaken the faith of Reagan supporters in the Administration's repeated assurances that its prime aim in backing the contras is to stop the flow of Communist weapons into Nicaragua and from there into El Salvador. Said Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine, explaining his vote last week for the antimining resolution: "We know that mines cannot distinguish between commercial vessels and those laden with Soviet and Cuban weapons ... With the destruction of each economic...
...contras has been marked by ambiguities as to purpose, scope and methods. The CIA began secret arming and training of Nicaraguan exiles in Honduras under the authority of National Security Decision Directive 17, signed by Reagan in December 1981. NSDD 17 specified the purpose as interdicting the flow of arms from Nicaragua to the Communist-led rebels in El Salvador. Hit-and-run raids by the contras could not accomplish that, however, and so, by April 1982, the goal of U.S. backing for the contras was redefined. It became to "harass" the Sandinistas so greatly that they would find...
...mining of Nicaraguan ports. At a press conference in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, Adolfo Calero Portocarrero, leader of the rebel Nicaraguan Democratic Front (F.D.N.), said that his organization reserved the right to undertake similar actions in the future. The aim, said Calero, was to halt the massive flow of Soviet bloc weapons to the Sandinistas and, only incidentally, to prevent a portion of that arms aid from being passed along to El Salvador. Finally, Calero declared that "we are confident that the U.S. will continue to back the struggle for democracy in the Americas...
...year that the Salvadoran "insurgency depends for its lifeblood-arms, ammunition, financing, logistics and command-and-con-trol facilities-upon outside assistance from Nicaragua and Cuba." The crucial question is how far the Administration intends to go with its support of the contras. Its original stated aim-interdicting the flow of arms to the Salvadoran rebels-was morally valid if practically difficult...
...have to know everything that's going on," Wolfe explains later. "We could be stock-market consultants." In a sense they are, since buyers regulate the flow of merchandise that determines the rise and fall of the fashion index. Wolfe, like more and more buyers from big stores, has his instincts reinforced by computer analyses of past sales. "If we bought 20 furs and sold 20," he says, "then we didn't buy enough. If we bought 20 and sold twelve, we bought too many and the remainder have to go on sale. Fifteen...