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...history Nicaragua: Revolution in the Family, Shirley Christian tells of a meeting eight months before the fall of President Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua. Two of President Carter's top Latin American advisers urged that Somoza be forced out quickly to permit creation of a new, moderate government before the Sandinistas could pick up the pieces. Other advisers were opposed, including Robert Pastor of the National Security Council. He recalls, "Pete (Viron Vaky) felt we could and should force out Somoza in the fall of '78, and I felt that we couldn't and shouldn't . . . I felt that Carter should...
...first element of the new interventionism was proclaimed in President Reagan's 1985 State of the Union address, and has become known as the Reagan Doctrine. The President pledged American support to "those who are risking their lives on every continent from Afghanistan to Nicaragua to defy Soviet- supported aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth...
Americans are inclined to support "freedom fighters," but the Reagan Doctrine addresses only one kind: those fighting "Soviet-supported aggression." In practice this has meant anti- Communist guerrillas in four countries (Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia and Nicaragua), all of whom the Administration is now assisting either overtly or covertly...
Since announcing the aid plan last week, the administration has waged a lobbying blitz that included Reagan's assertion Wednesday that the $100 million is needed "so we will never have to send our own American boys" to fight Nicaragua's leftist government...
Reagan reiterated yesterday that he has no plan to send troops to Nicaragua...