Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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North told Noriega in October 1985 that the Panamanian training bases were needed because U.S. laws at the time banned any direct U.S. help for the rebels fighting Nicaragua's leftist government, Jose I. Blandon said through an interpreter...
...pilot, 38-year-old Floyd Carlton, also said Noriega personally authorized air shipments of weapons to leftist guerillas in El Salvador and to Sandinista rebels in Nicaragua during the Sandinistas' successful fight to overthrow the government of Anastasio Somoza...
Seeger is currently visiting one of his children in Nicaragua, according to Benz, and he will not return to this country until the night of the concert. Benz cited Seeger's "longstanding commitment to civil rights and social justice issues and his activism in anti-apartheid efforts," as his reasons for participating in the event...
...doubtful whether, before Nicaragua is fully democratized and thus demilitarized, this is indeed the wish of Nicaragua's neighbors. But assume that it is. Assume further that proximity gives Central Americans greater moral cachet than North Americans to decide Nicaragua's future. What then gives a Costa Rican more moral authority to decide the fate of Nicaragua than 12,000 to 15,000 Nicaraguans fighting to liberate their own country and asking only for the materials with which...
...Arias plan has become the great totem of the current Nicaragua debate. But it is no substitute for an American foreign policy. Americans still have to ask themselves the basic questions. Questions of national interest: Can the U.S. risk the domination of Central America by a Soviet client state? And questions of national purpose: Is it right for the U.S. to support a guerrilla force fighting a Leninist dictatorship? "Central American" answers to these questions are conflicting and cacophonous. In deciding its own answers, ! America might want to listen to various of these voices. It is not obliged...