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...denouncing economic injustice and insisting on the rights of the downtrodden. Taking their lead from the Pontiff, American bishops are issuing strong moral stands on their nation's nuclear arms strategy, the U.S. economic system and the evil of abortion. Bishops in Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uganda, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and other lands have boldly denounced human rights abuses by their governments. In South Africa, white Archbishop Denis Hurley will go on trial in February because of his public protests against police brutality toward blacks in Namibia...
...thing, thirty years ago the revolution in Cuba hadn't happened, the revolution in Nicaragua hadn't happened and the insurgency in EI Salvador hadn't gotten to the point it has now. Some of the same inequities still exist, but the historical context is very different. The opposition in Guatemala today are opposing the military on a whole different level. If and when they're ever victorious, it will be a far more profound change than they saw with the election of Aravenz [the first democratically elected president of Guatemala, deposed by a CIA coup...
...sight. Says one Reagan Administration official: "Ten years ago, most insurgencies around the world were directed against the West. Now many of them are against the Soviet Union or its allies." He has in mind not only the Afghanistan rebellion but the contra campaign in Nicaragua and a struggle by guerrillas against the government of Angola, which is being propped up by as many as 30,000 Cuban troops...
CENTRAL AMERICA. The Reagan Administration views the Sandinista government now running Nicaragua as a group of Soviet-allied Marxists, and fears that consolidation of the Sandinistas' hold on Nicaragua would pose a deadly danger of leftist revolution spreading not only to neighboring Central American countries but eventually even to Mexico. Washington's strategy to prevent that has been to sponsor the anti-Sandinista contras, with the avowed aim of putting pressure on the Sandinistas to stop exporting revolution. U.S. diplomats claim some success. Asserts one: "This (Sandinista) government is in trouble. It has gone 180 degrees from preaching 'revolution without...
...accept the Marxist government, and Washington is in no mood to do that. Last week the U.S. put off talks with the Sandinistas and walked out of World Court hearings on a Nicaraguan suit against the U.S. for its support of the contras. The other alternative is to support Nicaragua's neighbors in an effort to "contain" the Sandinistas; that effort might have to continue for decades...