Word: nicaragua
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Coffin said that Reagan was guilty of pride in his foreign policy, which allowed him to ignore the opinions of "every other government," in its relations with Nicaragua...
...memory, was cheated out of the Philippine presidency by the Marcos's sleazy shenanigans. The presidential hemming and hawing on the Philippine election, which Aquino correctly called a contest between good and evil, came during a new Administration initiative to funnel aid to two dubious movements: the Contras in Nicaragua and Jonas Savimbi's South Africa-backed rebels in Angola...
...Administration. Democrats have generally allowed Republicans to frame the political debate in terms of defense spending, which is very different--and the difference is often lost--from foreign policy. Because Democrats want less spending, they are perceived as isolationists--soft on communism, unwilling to fight the Sandinista threat in Nicaragua...
...once again, the U.S. government is inflexible to reasonable compromise where Central America is concerned. The Latin American ministers met with a cool response from Shultz last month in Washington. The Reagan Administration refuses to alter its unremitting campaign against Nicaragua. As one leading official is reported to have said, "Contadora's document of objectives includes pluralism, democracy, and reconciliation. How do you get the Sandinist Communists to agree with that? The answer seems to me clear, and it is pressure." Military pressure, of course...
Congress is in a position to change this short-sighted policy. It can go one step further than merely considering the proposed funding and demand an end to this country's illegal and disgraceful military involvement in Nicaragua. With an endorsement of the Contadora initiative, Congress can tell the White House: no negotiation, no compromise...