Word: nicaragua
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...Administration claimed that an emergency had indeed arisen from Nicaragua's "aggressive activities in Central America." It laid out a litany of accusations to back up the contention. Among them: "Nicaragua's continuing efforts to subvert its neighbors, its rapid and destabilizing military buildup, its close military and security ties to Cuba and the Soviet Union and its imposition of Communist totalitarian internal rule." The embargo would end, said Speakes, when the Sandinistas took "concrete steps" to moderate their behavior...
...fact, what had changed was less the situation in Central America than the atmosphere on Capitol Hill. The idea of an embargo against Nicaragua had come up for presidential consideration six or seven times over the past few years. Most recently, beginning last January, it was raised by some Senate Republicans and Democrats. Secretary of State George Shultz had been cool to such a step on the grounds that it would not bring enough pressure for change in Nicaragua. Reagan has long maintained that embargoes are ineffective (see box): his Administration called off Jimmy Carter's 1981 grain-sales...
...Havana. The Cubans were leaving in fulfillment of a promise made by Ortega last February as part of a Nicaraguan "peace offensive" aimed at influencing the contra debate. But the ceremony was strictly for public consumption: an additional 85 Cubans either had arrived or were on their way to Nicaragua. The Sandinistas say that slightly under 700 Cuban military advisers remain in the country. U.S. estimates run to as many...
...Affairs, declared that "the President still firmly believes in support for the freedom fighters." Motley, a former Alaska real estate developer who resigned in order to return to business, has had his . differences with both hard-liners and "ultra liberals," but had no fundamental disagreements with Administration policy on Nicaragua. His replacement, Elliott Abrams, currently Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, is known as an articulate conservative...
Another subject about which nothing was said in public but a lot in private was the U.S. embargo on trade with Nicaragua that was announced when Reagan arrived in Bonn last Wednesday (see WORLD). The other leaders were annoyed by both the policy and its timing. Said a West German official: "There will always be the impression that there was approval or a secret understanding with us. There wasn...