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...organization-wide debate on the Reagan Administration's militant stance in the region. Though the proposal was overwhelmingly rejected by the 9,800 V.F.W. posts at the national convention in August, the Santa Cruz dissidents had one of their members deliver the resolution to the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Said Anderson: "We wanted to let those fellows know that not all the people up here, especially veterans, agree with what's going...
Democrats were quick to deflate speculation that the President's MX victory would provide momentum in Congress for his other unpopular programs, including large increases in the military budget and new aid to antigovernment contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. Even Republican Senator Paul Laxalt, Reagan's closest friend in Congress, admits that those are "wholly different issues," without the patriotic overtones that Reagan evoked so effectively in the MX campaign. Some legislators were even talking of chopping $1 billion or more from the $3.7 billion the Administration has requested for research on the Strategic Defense Initiative, usually called Star Wars...
...Argentina." Taking note of Argentina's woes, Reagan advocated making "tough decisions" in the economic sphere, meaning austerity, as the best solution leading to recovery. Reagan also took the opportunity to extol his own hard-line policies in Central America, particularly vis-a-vis the leftist regime in Nicaragua. Said Reagan: "The free people of this hemisphere must not stand by and watch the Communist tyranny imposed on Nicaragua spread to the free lands of the Americas...
...reply the stocky, dignified Alfonsin cited the foreign-debt issue as "one of the biggest differences between our two countries" and told Reagan that overpowering economic problems "conspire against democratic systems." Nonetheless, Alfonsin noted that in conversations with U.S. leaders, "the subject of Nicaragua and Central America will not be absent." He added, in words similar to those he used two days later at a meeting with TIME editors (see box), "I am convinced that it is through dialogue that we will be able to reach peace...
...peaceful solution in the region, along the lines suggested by the so-called Contadora group of Latin American countries--Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela--that is sponsoring regional peace talks. He did not challenge Reagan's description of the U.S.-supported contra rebels, who are warring against Nicaragua's Sandinista government, as "freedom fighters." According to U.S. officials, Alfonsin told Reagan that when pondering the Central American crisis, he took into consideration "data of reality," meaning U.S. national security concerns in the area...