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Much of the criticism of the Reagan Administration's push for a 600-ship Navy has been that it is designed for a dubious new mission: threatening the Soviet mainland during the early stages of a superpower showdown. Journalist Jack Beatty, writing in the May issue of the Atlantic magazine, argues that the Navy should concentrate more on its less glamorous time-honored role -- which happens to be what the Stark was doing last week. One problem, however, is that the vulnerability and cost of America's large aircraft carriers mean that the Navy does not feel safe stationing...
...hemispheric affairs that is usually taken to mean we must prevent communism from jumping to the North American mainland. Well, great. But even assuming communism is like a weather front or measles, spreadable as pollen on the wind, we may be more responsible for its currency in the Third World than the Soviets. I found Nicaraguans much fonder of Americans than of Russians, but far angrier at the U.S. Government than at anything the USSR has done. Nicaragua is a country where veneration for Marx, though well advanced in some circles, is considerably less than the veneration for the Virgin...
After his speech, the Governor will open an exhibition by the celebrated Puerto Rican portrait artist, Francisco Rodon, which will be the artist's first showing on the U.S. mainland. The show will run through March...
...century and a half the extraordinary security of the American mainland owed much to the fact that the U.S. resisted, under the Monroe Doctrine, any great-power penetration of its own hemisphere. For the past 40 years that local security has enabled the U.S. to look abroad and take responsibility for a vast alliance. Cuba was the first great breach in the Monroe Doctrine, and it has indeed complicated the U.S. strategic position not only in the Americas, where Cuba has actively engaged in the attempted destabilization of one country after another, but as far away as Africa, where Cuban...
...Soviet bloc is now in the process of consolidating a second base in the Americas, this time on the mainland, in contiguity with Costa Rica and ultimately Panama to the south, and with Honduras, El Salvador and ultimately Mexico to the north. That the Sandinista revolution is without frontiers is not a hypothetical notion. It is historical. In the first years of their rule the Sandinistas poured considerable effort into the Salvadoran insurgency, which hoped to pull off a victory before the inauguration of Ronald Reagan. That attempt failed, but not for lack of trying. The Sandinistas have been more...