Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pick and choose among different reasons for confronting the Sandinistas. Among the hardliners, the latest outcry may have the ultimate aim of restoring shattered congressional support for the rebellious contras. That prospect, however, has grown even less likely in the wake of the controversy over a CIA-drafted counterinsurgency manual (see box). Among moderates, the hope is to force the Sandinistas to accept a version of the so-called Contadora peace process that will adequately guarantee security and democracy in the region...
...infamous CIA manual on guerrilla warfare might have been written with the jungles of Nicaragua in mind, but its chief effect so far has been to provoke conflict in Washington. Last week skirmishes were raging not only between the Reagan Administration and Capitol Hill but within the CIA. Five middle-level agency officials, targeted to be disciplined for their part in drafting the contentious primer, said they were being used as scapegoats. Congressional critics charged that the five were victims of a cover-up designed to protect senior officials, notably CIA Director William J. Casey, who has supervised the covert...
...government policy of funding and militarily aiding the contras is clearly a powerful, destructive offensive move with sickening extensions and implications. One need only read excerpts from the recently exposed CIA manual that instructs the contras--among other things--in techniques of political assassination and kidnapping, to be further convinced of this...
Most of his quandaries arise from Latin American writers' love of verbal play. In A Manual for Manuel, Cortazar characterizes different types of secret policemen in a string of richly suggestive alliterative words, hormigon, hormigucho, etc. In English, a literal translation (big ant, big clumsy ant) would have been ungainly. Rabassa's solution: dominant, sycophant, miscreant...
...country is, quite simply, opposed to justice and liberation in Central America. The mining of the harbor, the CIA manual and the contra funding hurt American prestige and are ineffectual, as liberals claim. The point they miss is that all of these efforts, like Walter F. Mondale's proposed quarantine, are aimed at destroying a government that overthrew a U.S.-sponsored dictatorship which repressed its poverty stricken citizens...