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The political damage caused by the mining and by subsequent revelations that the American CIA had directed and supervised it from a mother ship off Nicaragua's Pacific coast is on another order of magnitude altogether. A troublesome rift has opened in the nation's alliances, symbolized by a French...
United Nations Security Council against a complaint by Nicaragua's Sandinista government about the mining and other U.S.-financed contra activities, then declaring last week that the U.S. will not accept the jurisdiction of the World Court on protests filed by Nicaragua.
The mining was anything but secret, suspicions of CIA involvement were worldwide, and Administration briefings had offered Congress at least the opportunity to confirm them before the press did. Nonetheless, though Goldwater inexplicably voted against the antimining resolution, which was offered by Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy, 42 of the Senate...
The CIA was required to keep both the Senate and the House committees informed of its Nicaraguan activities, which are now well-known to the public. These operations began as far back as Sept. 8 of last year with the CIA-backed bombing of Corinto, and continued until early this...
Now, there's certainly more that's strange here than meets the eye. First of all, Goldwater: why did he allow the CIA to postpone meetings on two different occasions and then not focus debate in the March 8 meeting on the mining issue, which must have been in his...