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...They are vastly different from the I statements they were making some six months ago," said Secretary of State George Shultz. He was talking about the conciliatory tone of recent pronouncements by the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua. But perhaps more important, the same thing could be said about Shultz's own comments last week. When asked at a press conference about the new Sandinista approach, the Secretary said, "I welcome that. Of course, what we want is for a reality to be put behind the rhetoric. So naturally we want to probe and find out what is there...
...Last week, the United States issued two visa denials to prominent Central Americans, one being the Nicaraguan Minister of the Interior, the other an El Salvadoran leader. Administration officials have stressed both of these acts as demonstrating its even-handedness in dealing with Central Americans--one person being a leftist, the other a rightist. How would you both interpret the visa denials? What kind of signals do those denials send to the respective governments in Nicaragua and El Salvador...
Before leaving, the students performed a purification ritual to cleanse the lab of "the evil spirit left by the hand of brutal leftist thugs...
...Sandinistas have announced that 1,000 Cuban advisers have left Nicaragua and that others will leave if El Salvador and Honduras expel their U.S. advisers. The government has also let it be known that leftist Salvadoran rebels are no longer welcome on Nicaraguan soil, forcing them to find another haven. In addition, the Sandinistas have hinted that elections will be held in 1985, and have made overtures to leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the country's embattled business community to sit down and discuss their differences...
WOULD THE ADMINISTRATION permit a left-leaning Grenadian government to replace the leftist one U.S. forces dislodged? The ambivalent role of American troops and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger '38's refusal to set a specific withdrawal deadline portend a disheartening, but hardly surprising, answer. We have toppled democratically elected governments (Mossadegh of Iran in 1953). We also support repressive dictatorships around the globe (Ferdinand Macros of the Philippines, Chun Doo Hwan of South Korea, etc.) to suit our own geopolitical and strategic interests. By ferreting out known Bishop supporters, the U.S. government is preventing the leaders of a major...