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...Costa Rica afloat despite a $4.4 billion foreign debt. Arias also portrayed himself as the peace candidate, upholding his country's policy of neutrality while insisting that Costa Rica, which disbanded its army in 1948, must hold the line against the pro-Marxist Sandinista regime across the border in Nicaragua...
...case for hard-line conservatives on the Administration's commitment to the so-called Reagan Doctrine. The President affirmed that policy a year ago in his State of the Union address. "We must not break faith with those who are risking their lives on every continent, from Afghanistan to Nicaragua, to defy Soviet-supported aggression," Reagan stated. "Support for freedom fighters is self-defense...
...forgetting by remembering extended to foreign policy as well. Proclaiming America's commitment to "extend the family of freedom," he promised to help freedom fighters everywhere in order to assure that "all God's children" will achieve their dreams. But Reagan remembers this commitment only in Afghanistan, Angola, and Nicaragua--all countries with Soviet backed governments. He conveniently forgot El Salvador, the Phillipines, and Chile. The struggle by Black South Africans to end apartheid was noticably absent from his text...
...officials express confidence that sentiment is turning against the Nicaraguan government. "I sense a certain militancy growing," said one senior aide to Reagan. Congress last year limited U.S. help to the contras to $27 million in humanitarian supplies and cut off all military aid. Only days after that decision, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega Saavedra flew off to visit Moscow; interpreting the trip as a nose-thumbing gesture, some Congressmen said they regretted having rejected the military funding. Ortega's government has cracked down further on the freedom of the clergy and the press. "People have come to know...
...Latin America. "The Administration is going to have a very tough fight on its hands on lethal aid," he said. He noted that the nations involved in the Contadora process (Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Panama) have renewed their efforts to seek a regional solution to the conflict in Nicaragua. At the same time, the Gramm- Rudman deficit-reduction plan will require cutbacks in foreign-aid appropriations; any increase to the contras could be at the expense of other nations...