Word: nicaragua
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...foreign policy in places such as El Salvador and Nicaragua can aggravate the refugee problem too, said Atkins. "Refugee numbers are a price of U.S. foreign policies...
...more. Skirmishes will multiply as the few efforts at bipartisan cooperation of the recent past recede from Washington's memory. For one thing, the Democrats are plainly frustrated. In a fit of complaisance early last year, the White House and Democrats agreed to set aside differences on policy toward Nicaragua, collaborated on a plan to bail out the savings and loan industry and settled on the outlines of the federal budget. But the budget accord unraveled, largely over Bush's insistence on a capital-gains tax cut that would mainly benefit taxpayers earning $200,000 or more a year. Senate...
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra says the U.S.-backed contras did it. The contras deny any responsibility. Nicaragua's political opposition says the Sandinistas may be accountable. Publicly the Bush Administration says Washington hasn't a clue who did it, but privately officials suggest it was renegade Miskito Indians in the area. On this much, however, all parties agree: the incident was, as one contra spokesman put it, "a monstrous and abominable crime...
Care for a used dictator, courtesy of the Vatican? Not if he is Manuel Antonio Noriega, replied leaders of Spain, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and perhaps other nations last week. None wanted any part of the busted Panamanian strongman, accused drug dealer and alleged black-magic practitioner. Only Cuba showed even a grudging interest in enabling Noriega to leave the Vatican embassy in Panama City, where he had taken refuge from invading U.S. troops on Christmas Eve. "We wouldn't do it for Noriega the man," said a Cuban diplomat. "This would be our way of standing up for nonintervention...
Another diplomatic contretemps flared up when U.S. troops briefly invaded the residence of Nicaragua's Ambassador to Panama Antenor Ferrey, apparently to search for a cache of weapons. They turned up five rifles, which were later returned with an apology. In retaliation, Nicaragua ordered 20 American diplomats to leave Managua...