Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...network television turned its back on the Great Communicator. ABC, CBS and NBC refused to broadcast a presidential address on the eve of the vote. Network executives said there was no news in Reagan's 20- minute plea, and in fact, the speech was full of familiar hyperbolic rhetoric: "Nicaragua is being transformed into a beachhead for aggression against the U.S." In a follow-up address, Indiana Democrat Lee Hamilton offered the prevailing House view. The U.S., he said, should wait and see if Nicaragua sticks with the peace process set in motion by last summer before restoring military...
...Managua, President Daniel Ortega cast a skeptical eye on the House vote. "Nicaragua cannot let down its guard," he warned. Rather than promoting the peace process, Ortega condemned the governments of El Salvador and Honduras for lending assistance to the contras. Rather than offering an olive branch to the opposition parties, Ortega called on them to "straighten...
Contra supporters read this as an ominous sign that the Sandinistas have no intention of moving toward democracy. Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs and Reagan's embattled point man on the contra issue, has warned that without pressure from the rebels, "Nicaragua will become another Cuba, and the chances of the survival of democracy in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are enormously diminished...
Noriega later offered to send Panamanian soldiers inside Nicaragua to conduct "terrorist sabotage" against the Sandinistas, Blandon said. North answered that he had no authority to accept such an offer but would relay it to his bosses at the National Security Council...
Noriega asserted last week that Poindexter talked at that meeting about plans for a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua, but Blandon disputed that. No such plans were discussed, he said...