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Reagan decided three weeks ago to make a major speech on Central America, initially at the urging of CIA Director William Casey and U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Both argued for a hard-line anti-Soviet address that would cast the region's problems in a stark East-West context. Kirkpatrick wrote an article last month arguing that denying aid to the Salvadoran government and the Nicaraguan insurgents "would be to make the U.S. the enforcer of [the late Soviet President Leonid] Brezhnev's doctrine of irreversible Communist revolution." In another article, Casey wrote that the problems in Central America reflected...
...State Department was also eager for Reagan personally to take responsibility for selling the Administration's policies, but officials there argued that the hardline approach favored by Casey and Kirkpatrick would backfire. "The idea is to calm the opposition down," said one State Department official, "so that we can go ahead with what we're already doing." Reagan agreed. He made clear that he wanted to avoid the bellicose tone he had used in his "evil empire" speech in March. "I do not want a heavily anti-Soviet speech, because people will turn off their TV sets and say, 'There...
...President flatly pledged that the U.S. was not planning to attack the regime in Nicaragua. "We do not seek its overthrow," he said. But he added that the U.S. "will not protect the Nicaraguan government from the anger of its own people." Using one of the lines suggested by Kirkpatrick, he argued that continued military aid must be given to those countries like El Salvador that are resisting Nicaraguan-supported rebels. "I do not believe that a majority of Congress or the country is prepared to stand by passively while the people of Central America are delivered to totalitarianism...
...selection of the millionaire Spanish-speaking lawyer was greeted with restrained enthusiasm by many of his former congressional colleagues. Some were troubled by his hard-line ideological views, the same views that endear him to his Administration supporters, National Security Adviser William Clark and U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Stone's work in 1981 and 1982 as a paid lobbyist for the right-wing Guatemalan government of General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia, a regime with an abysmal record of human rights abuses, also disturbs some members of Congress; they fear that this connection will hurt his credibility with Salvadoran leftists...
...relief that Watt did not err even more gravely than he did in selecting a replacement band. After all, he might have tapped the Clash to play cuts from their popular album Sandinista, a move that would surely have incurred the dangerous wrath of United Nations Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, who has never been that particular group of Central American rebels' most devoted band that calls itself the Dead Kennedys (best known for its rendition of "Kill the Poor"), thereby annihilating the White House's already troubled efforts to patch up relations with the Democratic party...