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...America, the Reagan administration argues that the fight against the people is actually a duel with Communism, with Moscow and Havana. The current issue of U.S. News and World Report, (with the bright red headline "Is Central America Going Communist?") features an interview with Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr. "What is at stake is the radicalization of the Western Hemisphere by foreign powers and by interests that are being manipulated from Moscow and Cuba." The contention rests largely on stacks of "captured documents," unlabelled, vague and contradictory papers allegedly seized by the Salvadoran military; believe these few hundred...
Beyond the man hunt, which involved FBI and Secret Service interviews with many Americans who may have had recent links with Libya, security precautions continued to be tightened around the President, Vice President George Bush, Secretary of State Alexander Haig and members of the Reagan family. In addition, Secret Service protection was extended for the first time to the President's top aides, James Baker, Michael Deaver and Edwin Meese. White House officials, however, were understood to be extremely concerned about disclosures of specific security addafi measures...
...weeks, Secretary of State Alexander Haig, White House Counsellor Edwin Meese and other senior U.S. officials have been issuing a series of increasingly bellicose warnings about the behavior of Nicaragua's Marxist Sandinista government. The U.S. is concerned about what Haig calls the "drift toward totalitarianism" of the Nicaraguan regime, the presence of some 1,500 Cuban military advisers in the country and the role of Nicaragua in supporting the left-wing guerrillas in El Salvador. Haig is also irked by Nicaragua's own heavy arms buildup, which he believes is sponsored by Cuba and the Soviet Union...
Despite those sharp expressions of concern, the Reagan Administration was at pains last week to show that it was still trying to hold its temper. At a meeting of the Organization of American States on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, Haig said that the U.S. "is prepared to join others in doing whatever is prudent and necessary to prevent any country in Central America from becoming the platform of terror and war." As Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann listened gravely, Haig added that "if Nicaragua addresses our concerns about interventionism and militarization . . . we do not close...
...other neighboring countries. For that reason, Washington in January decided to suspend some $15 million in promised U.S. aid to Nicaragua. That was possibly an unwise decision, since it reinforced Sandinista charges that the Reagan Administration is merely out to ruin the country. In their recent statements, both Haig and Meese have ruled out unilateral U.S. military intervention in Nicaragua as an antidote to the flow of arms, but they have ruled out little else. Both officials, in fact, have said that a naval blockade of Nicaragua or other drastic measures could not be excluded as an eventual possibility...