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...easy enough to call a roll of words and actions that have darkened the outlook. On the U.S. side, the Reagan Administration has stepped up a campaign of military pressure on Soviet clients, blasting Soviet- installed missile sites in Libya, lobbying for resumed military aid to the contras in Nicaragua, and now supplying missiles to anti-Marxist guerrillas in Angola and rebels battling the Soviet army in Afghanistan. Then there have been symbolic actions that infuriated Moscow: a naval mission skirted U.S.S.R. waters to eavesdrop on Soviet communications on the Black Sea coast, and the U.S. ordered...
...says one national-security adviser, wants another summit, but with Soviet rather than American concessions. "We would like them to engage in a fundamental reassessment of their policy on regional issues," he says. "Until now the Soviets have not been seriously challenged in their regional initiatives--Afghanistan, Angola, Libya, Nicaragua--and they may have overextended themselves. Like every bureaucracy, the tendency has been for them to muddle through. Now we want them to learn what the costs are of all this adventure...
However, this deferment theory eliminates America's ability to use its own morals, interest, and considerable expertise in determining its own policies. We did not reflexively give military aid to anti-Sandinista rebels in Nicaragua because they asked for it. In fact, many people overrode the Contra sentiment, claiming that there were more effective and more moral ways to achieve much-needed reform in this repressive Central American country...
...sure that the protesters who demonstrated Wednesday night are good people. They put time and energy into the demonstration because they believed in it. They protested for the people of Nicaragua, not for themselves, and for that they are to be commended...
...speech to ensure that the voice of minorities can be heard. In this case, the Contras are the minority. The protesters could have spoken during the question and answer period. They could have had talks of their own. They believe in their cause. They are fighting for freedom in Nicaragua--freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from fear and freedom from poverty--and that is good. What they need to understand is that they can't bring about freedom in Nicaragua by suppressing those very same freedoms at home. Jee-Hye Park...