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Whatever the Administration may be able to salvage from Congress in the next few weeks, the uproar over its Central American policy will reverberate throughout the fall presidential campaign. Added to the debacle in Lebanon and the icy state of relations with the Soviet Union, the mining episode has revived...
U.S. allies began registering deep disapproval. In a supposedly confidential letter to some Latin American countries that promptly leaked in Colombia, French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson offered, "in cooperation with one or more European countries," to help sweep the mines from Nicaraguan ports. It was a clumsy play intended to...
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher protested the mining in the strongest terms to Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., who was in London. Privately, her ministers explained that they fear Reagan is heading toward a showdown with the Sandinistas that will make it all the harder to justify U.S...
Through most of this turmoil, U.S. supervision of the mining was a matter of conjecture and supposition. It was quite obvious supposition to be sure, since the contras could hardly have placed the mines on then" own. Then, a bit more than a week ago, word leaked that the CIA...
January, and Goldwater's memory of the Senate briefings was imperfect. Casey last week read back to the Senate Intelligence Committee remarks he had made about the mining that are contained in transcripts of briefings from March 8 and 13. That certainly did not end the dispute. Since the briefings...