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...majority of his colleagues evidently agree. Last week the House, voting 227 to 194, passed an amendment to the intelligence bill that would prohibit further funding of the disparate terrorist groups fighting against Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government. The Administration wanted $50 million for the several small armies based in border areas of Honduras and Costa Rica. In a letter to O'Neill, Secretary Shultz pleaded for continued funding, arguing that regular attacks by the U.S.-backed contra guerrillas in Nicaragua provide essential pressure on the Sandinistas to cut back their support of Marxist guerrillas...
...leaders have indulged in some frank selfcriticism. "Serious problems" exist, admitted the release that announced the purge. "Some party members have a vague and confused idea about the basic principles and superiority of the socialist system and about the bright Communist future . . . some turn a blind eye to anti-Marxist and antisocialist ideas." Even today, continued the anonymous critic, "some party members . .. openly violate regulations and discipline, sabotage state plans, vio late state economic policies and illegally retain taxes and profits...
...dedicated to the resistance of Marxist-Leninist totalitarianism. We are also dedicated to human rights and democracy. It is in pursuit of both of these objectives that we have come to look at the situation." So declared former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as he arrived at San Salvador's Ilopango airport last week accompanied by the eleven other members of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America. Kissinger had posed the essential dilemma for U.S. policy in the region: how to halt Marxist subversion while securing democratic rule for nations plagued with dictatorships of both the left...
Tuning in to Radio Free Grenada for an afternoon earful is usually about as much fun as listening to a hinge squeak. The broadcast, courtesy of the Marxist-led government of the minuscule Caribbean island (pop. 110,000), is chockablock with monologues about evil Yankee imperialists and the marvels of socialism. Not last week...
...assassination catalyzed the national rebellion that was already building against the regime, and subsequently served to sunder the bereaved family. In 1980, only a year after the revolution, the newspaper was paralyzed by a struggle between family members who supported the new Sandinista government and those critical of its Marxist-Leninist tendencies. The conservatives won, and Chamorro's brother Xavier, editor of La Prensa, left to form his own newspaper, taking most of the staff with him. Today Chamorro's widow, his brothers and sisters and four children are arrayed in almost equal numbers on opposing sides...