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...support for the contras: I think there are other formulas. I would continue a dialogue (with Nicaragua). Dialogue is the most important element...
...extending "our sympathies" to liberation movements in the Third World, he also served notice that the Soviet Union would continue to provide more than just sympathy to the Sandinistas of Nicaragua, the Marxist rulers of Ethiopia, the Viet Nam-backed puppet government of Kampuchea and the Babrak Karmal regime of Afghanistan. In effect, Gorbachev was offering his own rejoinder to the Reagan doctrine of American support for anti-Communist guerrilla movements...
Chomsky, who spoke as part of a week-long series of events organized by the Committee on Central America, compared U.S. in volvement in Nicaragua and Vietnam. Before getting heavily into the Indochina war in 1965, protest was virtually non existent--in sharp contrast to widespread criticism of U.S. support for anti-government rebels in Marxist-led Nicaragua...
Asked about the reports by a Senate committee, Shultz replied, "I don't say there aren't any problems, but it always strikes me how when there's a sense here or in Nicaragua that we're coming up to a vote or a decision, that all sorts of stuff starts appearing." The vote on the $14 million will be in the form of separate House and Senate resolutions and is expected in April. If the Administration's request is defeated, the White House will start pushing its alternative funding proposals in earnest...
...constantly being hustled. His role is to hear the pure tones, to sort out the voices that are most often right and get them to the President. Partly this is a matter of mastering new information. Regan found that the Ortega they talked about at the White House was Nicaragua's leftist leader and not Katherine Ortega, Treasurer of the U.S., who signs the money. On TV he was taken aback when asked what the Administration planned to do about AIDS, not the balance of trade...