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...foreign policy, the most dramatic ideas the President is hearing are dubious ones advanced by hard-liners. One group is urging that Reagan both announce he is moving toward early deployment of his Strategic Defense Initiative and greatly increase pressure on the Marxist Sandinistas in Nicaragua. The Central American initiative would mean asking for a huge increase in U.S. aid to the contra rebels and assigning American ground troops to support the guerrillas. "That would focus public debate on something useful to the country," says one adviser...
...while the report found no evidence the president knew about the diversion of money from Iran arms sales to Nicaragua's Contra rebels, it raised questions about the roles of key administration officials...
...revelations of secret arms deals with Iran and the consequent diversion of profits from those sales to aid the contra rebels in Nicaragua are more than just the story of some overzealous actions by a gung-ho cowboy. They suggest an Administration's disdain for the often cumbersome mechanics of democracy and a simple, breathtaking willingness to preach one thing in public and do another in private...
...been covertly selling arms to Iran in an attempt to win freedom for American hostages in Lebanon. That dubious policy flared into scandal with the revelation that some of the money received for the arms had been diverted, apparently in violation of congressional laws, to the contra rebels in Nicaragua. As questions multiplied with a velocity that brought Watergate to mind, a backpedaling White House seemed guilty, at the very least, of high incompetence. At the center of the storm was a little-known National Security Council staff member, Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, whose mysterious doings, and the questions they...
...thrall, or to fend off each other. These two countries are called superpowers, but the name is illusory, since the power they have to level the earth and each other is self-restraining. While the U.S. and the Soviets must posture about war, less muscle-bound nations, such as Nicaragua, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, go at the real thing. So fierce are Lebanon's internal wars, one wonders if the country that grew the timber for Solomon's temple will exist in your time. Murderers pretending to be countries wage war continuously in tighter arenas, blowing the limbs off children...