Word: nicaragua
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...Though it has never been mentioned publicly, Secretary of State George Shultz offered her a job as his deputy. Kirkpatrick has continued to please conservative supporters with calls for an assertive U.S. foreign policy. She has been especially vocal in support of aid to the antigovernment contras in Nicaragua, and proudly notes that the rebels have named one of their 400-man brigades the Jeane Kirkpatrick Task Force...
...City, but his real audience was members of Congress who were once again considering the resumption of aid to the contra rebels struggling against Ortega's Sandinista regime. "It was a dark day for freedom," Reagan scolded, "when, after the Soviet Union spent $500 million to impose Communism in Nicaragua, the U.S. Congress could not support a meager $14 million for the freedom fighters in Nicaragua who were opposed to that totalitarian government...
...humanitarian aid, but the proposal would bar the CIA or Pentagon from distributing the funds. The proposal is being opposed by the top Democratic leadership, and the vote is expected to be close. Charges House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "I'm trying to keep American troops out of Nicaragua...
Representative Michael Barnes, a Maryland Democrat who has long been critical , of the President's Central American policy, says that intelligence briefings indicate a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua would not be easy. It would take two or three weeks for troops to take the urban centers and several thousand lives would be lost on both sides, Barnes was told. "But then the Sandinistas would control the countryside," he says. From there they could wage a guerrilla war that would require a prolonged military occupation and counterinsurgency campaign. Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra was quoted as saying, "This...
...badly, and his Administration seems stalled. The major high- level shuffles last January, particularly the job switch between Chief of Staff Baker and Treasury Secretary Regan, wasted time that could have been spent exploiting Reagan's re-election momentum. Congress handcuffed the President on aid to the contras in Nicaragua, MX missile deployment and his defense buildup. Reagan's visit to a German military cemetery in Bitburg raised a storm of criticism at home and abroad. No breakthrough on arms control is in sight, and a summit meeting with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev seems to be drifting into limbo...