Word: nicaragua
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...second article quoted Nicaragua's President--"It is known that the United States has compromised the sovereignty of some neighboring countries of ours, like Honduras and Costa Rica, in order to maintain its aggression against Nicaragua." It went on to note that the World Court has already ordered the United States to stop "arming and training" Contra forces...
...Neutrality Act was presumably introduced to punish individual Americans who disturb the sovereignty of legitimately constituted governments against which the United States has no substantive grievance. Although Nicaragua fits this description, it is one of the nations that has not been protected from our government or our private citizens...
Every President from Kennedy to Reagan, with the possible exception of Jimmy Carter, is morally guilty. The names in any history book speak for themselves: the Bay of Pigs; Vietnam; Cambodia; Chile; Lebanon; Grenada; and most recently, Nicaragua...
...successes. They cite his role in devising the Navy's bold interception of an Egyptian airliner carrying the hijackers of the Achille Lauro, his ability to overcome Pentagon qualms about launching air strikes against Libya and his role in getting Congress to renew military aid to contra forces in Nicaragua...
...Espinoza Briones, a member of the National Assembly, was busy climbing the chain link fence surrounding the Venezuelan embassy in Managua. After diplomats began arriving for work, he entered the building and requested asylum. Espinoza, a critic of the Sandinista regime, apparently feared arrest. Such concerns are widespread in Nicaragua these days. Since the House passed legislation to give $100 million in aide to forces fighting the Sandinistas, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra has been cracking down on a wide range of opponents...