Word: guerilla
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Apparently, Reagan is fixed on Nicaragua Faced with a House of Representatives adamantly opposed to the contra guerilla he has been willing to willing to sacrifice more political capital on this issue than on any other in his four-year reign...
Groups such as the Institute for Policy Studies and the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee at Harvard explicitly link their calls for divestiture with support for the African National Congress. Today's rally at Harvard features the Director of International Relations of that Marxist-Leninist guerilla movement...
...Bunker. The lack of expertise in the government is complicated by the fact that the official with the most knowledge about nukes is dead set against limiting them. Richard Perle, the assistant secretary of defense for international security policy, is more than capable of waging four more years of guerilla warfare against any plan for accomodation with the Soviets. Unless he and his patron, the Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38, can be forced from office, moderates in the Administration will scarcely have time to think of possible agreements, because they will be too busy lobbing mortar over the Potomac...
...squelch the campaign of the most prominent of its opponents, the disillusioned former junta member Artoro Cruz, and right now there is no reason to expect the janta leader, Daniel Ortega Snavculra, will not be elected president next month in an electoral sham overshadowed only by the angling guerilla...
...that the Administration blind spot is most disconcerting. Granted Pentagon waste did not start in with the Reaganites, but clearly a fresh perspective is needed when President Reagan calls current U.S. aid to El Salvador--an amount which, according to published estimates allots more than $20,000 per Salvadoran guerilla--"niggardly," and likens the funding to "letting El Salvador slowly bleed to death." Clearly it is needed when, in the age of $50 screwdrivers and massive cost overruns. Weinberger says of inefficiency and corruption in Defense contracting: "there isn't any to start with, and it has no effect...