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Events in Nicaragua and Afghanistan are not conciliatory gestures, but shrewd political manuveurs. It is estimated that the invincible Red Army is incurring casualties in Afghanistan as high as those we did in Vietnam, while Nicaragua has become an enormous military and economic drain on the rickety Soviet economy. Gorbachev wants out in both places, and he needs American help to ensure that rebels will not topple his puppet governments when he leaves. By agreeing to stop funding the contras and mujahadeen in exchange for vague promises of more arms agreements, the Unites States would give legitimacy to the Marxist...
Worst of all, Gorbachev has taken advantage of Reagan's hopes to revitalize his wounded presidency. The administration's stand-tough policy on missiles in Europe and aggression in Afghanistan and Nicaragua forced. Gorbachev to the bargaining table. Now Reagan may throw that all away by trying to wrap up an agreement that will give him a place in history. Unfortunately, that place may be one distinguished by the hegemony of the Soviet Union and the decline of the United States...
Human rights is one of four items on the summit agenda, along with regional conflicts such as Afghanistan, Nicaragua and the Persian Gulf, bilateral relations and arms control...
William Walker is a figure flitting through the thickets of those impenetrable contemporary backgrounders about the situation in Nicaragua. An American adventurer who gathered a mercenary army -- well, actually, it was more of a platoon -- and "invaded" that unhappy land in 1855, he briefly became its President before being deposed and executed. It was the sudden death of his fiancee (Marlee Matlin) that turned Walker into a Manifest Destiny zealot (hey, whatever works for you!). Contrasting formality of speech and manner with ruthless righteousness, Ed Harris makes him a furiously compelling creature...
...maintain his uncertain hold on a turbulent and troubled city. Like Ronald Reagan, Koch is a master showman who finds that he can no longer dazzle his audience. His woes are such that when he was asked to lead a delegation this month to observe progress toward peace in Nicaragua, it offered a pleasant change from New York City...