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...HAIG MUST GO." The headline blazes forth from the pages of The New Republic,right? No? O.K. then it must come from the editorial section of The Washington Past...
...After one year in office, it has become transparent that Haig is a 'pure dententeist' [sic]...." writes the magazine. "The secretary loves to bluster about the Soviets, but when it comes to urging actions short of war, his advice is remarkably restrained." For Human Events, "Haig, in short, must...
BLATANT HYPOCRISY might be the best way to describe U.S. policy in Central America after Administration officials admitted last week that Washington is bankrolling efforts to destabilize Nicaragua's leftist regime. For months, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. has claimed that alleged Soviet meddling in El Salvador makes economic and military aid to Duarte's government a necessity. As one State Department official said. "Let's face it, there are a lot of things we don't like about helping Duarte but we can't just let the Russians do what they want in another country. This outside...
...told Congress that a different "Nicaraguan military man" had been captured in El Salvador after being sent there by the Nicaraguan Government to help the rebels. Mexican officials immediately claimed that the man was a student travelling from their country overland through El Salvador to his home in Nicaragua. Haig never introduced that guerrilla in public...
...assuming that there probably are Nicaraguans fighting for the left in El Salvador--with or without their Government's blessing--does that justify American military involvement of the sort Haig is clearly itching for? What would we defend--a corrupt, militaristic government which has allowed killer brigades to wander the countryside, aimlessly murdering civilians while battling the ill-defined forces of the left? And what of the Nicaraguan bases. Cuban-built or not? They only become dangerous if interpreted as the first falling dominos in a potential avalanche tumbling across El Salvador, Hondouras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and then the shipping...