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...sometimes involves as many as 5,800. "The only way to get rid of the Sandinistas," says Conchita Canales, a Nicaraguan exile now working as a cook in the Honduran border town of San Marcos, "is with the kind of action the U.S. pulled off in that island of Grenada." For the moment, though, it seems that the tensions and motions of war will continue, with none of the ready solutions. "No one feels completely secure," says Victor Meza, a political analyst at the Honduran Documentation Center whose name recently appeared on a death list. "Somebody wants to create...
...bridges in Honduras in indirect support of the U.S.-backed contras fighting in Nicaragua. When President Reagan sent U.S. aircraft into harm's way, Guard pilots flew the tankers that refueled the American F-111s bound for the strike against Libya. The Guard also helped rescue American students in Grenada. The upgrading of the Guard stems from the post-Viet Nam decision by the U.S. to rely on an all-volunteer Army. To attract recruits, pay and perks were raised to the point where the Pentagon now spends an average of $24,478 a year on each Army enlisted...
...wonder whether the Attorney General has considered the kind of genie that can rise from the constructionist bottle. Strict adherence might have prevented his boss from making war in Grenada. Keeping the CIA's favorite secrets would be impossible. There could be no federal minimum wage. The Air Force could not be funded (the Constitution mentions only an Army and a Navy), and the FCC, if it existed at all, could not assign television channels...
Every President from Kennedy to Reagan, with the possible exception of Jimmy Carter, is morally guilty. The names in any history book speak for themselves: the Bay of Pigs; Vietnam; Cambodia; Chile; Lebanon; Grenada; and most recently, Nicaragua...
...from a Libyan plot. Not that Qaddafi is beyond terrorism. But if Libya is really responsible, why aren't we the people allowed to see the proof? Are we simply to take for fact the claims of a president who deliberately lied about U.S. medical students being endangered in Grenada two years ago? Lane Kenworthy Summer School Proctor Lionel...