Word: nicaragua
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EVEN IF we say, which I am fearful of doing, that the Iran-contra scandal diminishes the likelihood of immediate American military involvement in Central America, the visible fact remains that the Reagan Administration's policy toward Nicaragua is a war policy. It is not easy to look at this policy and conclude that the Unites States is in anything less than a prolonged pre-war period at present. Whether Congress gives the contras $100 million, $500 million, or nothing at all, the current realities indicate that the proxy war will continue and that the contras...
...FUROR over Nicaragua, the transformation of a cartographer's flyspeck (largest of the Central American republics, but what does that mean?) into a superpower obsession, turns on a simple conceit: We don't know anything about Nicaragua, but we do know exactly what is good for it. What we generally mean when we talk about what is best for others is what is best...
...weather front or measles, spreadable as pollen on the wind, we may be more responsible for its currency in the Third World than the Soviets. I found Nicaraguans much fonder of Americans than of Russians, but far angrier at the U.S. Government than at anything the USSR has done. Nicaragua is a country where veneration for Marx, though well advanced in some circles, is considerably less than the veneration for the Virgin Mary in those same circles. Try saying that about Poland of Cuba, and you begin to appreciate the ambiguities of Nicaragua...
WASHINGTON--President Reagan was aware that money was being raised to provide arms for the Nicaragua rebels, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) said yesterday, but Reagan insisted his knowledge of private aid efforts was limited to a television campaign to garner support for the contras...
Tambs said he was told to give logistical helpto contras and Americans flying weapons to therebels and to help with the opening of a newcontra offensive on Nicaragua's southern borderwith Costa Rica, the newspaper said...