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...matter of immediate concern was an ominous decline in Washington's al ready troubled relations with Nicaragua. Though the Administration retreated from a leak made the previous week that a Soviet freighter was delivering MiG fighter jets to the pro-Marxist Sandinista regime, it continued to decry, in unusually harsh terms, the "incessant" buildup of other arms supplies in Nicaragua. Weinberger pointedly compared Moscow's current stockpiling of the country to its step-by-step militarization of Cuba nearly 25 years ago. The U.S. increased surveillance of the Soviet freighter Bakuriani, docked at the Nicaraguan port of Corinto...
Once again the familiar tremors swept through Nicaragua. In the streets of Managua, the capital, dozens of Soviet-made T-55 tanks clattered into defensive positions. Antiaircraft crews manned their batteries, while zealous neighborhood defense committees scurried to dig air-raid trenches. Some 20,000 volunteer coffee pickers were reassigned to local militia units as the Sandinista government announced a "state of alert" affecting the country's 100,000-member military and security forces. For the third time in two years, the Sandinistas were loudly convinced-or so they said-that U.S. troops were about to invade their soil...
...Nicaraguan war hysteria as "self-induced... based on nothing." Said he: "Obviously they're trying to whip up their own population. But I can't imagine what the reason is for doing that." Then Shultz provided a possible answer. The U.S., he said in reference to Nicaragua's Soviet-sponsored arms buildup, was "trying to work in any way we can to cast this aggressive and subversive influence out of our hemisphere...
...State Department and the Pentagon, those sentiments were stated more sharply. Even as U.S. officials repeatedly denied any aggressive intentions toward Nicaragua, they continued to issue stern warnings about the Central American republic's military buildup, especially the possible acquisition by the Sandinistas of high-performance Soviet-bloc aircraft. The U.S., said Pentagon Spokesman Michael Burch, would "provide whatever assistance is necessary" to protect its hemispheric interests. Did that include military intervention? Said Burch: "I'm not willing to include or exclude anything...
...humane, responsible U.S. citizens, we, along with the Nicaraguans, have reason to worry and demand a halt to the U.S. covert war in Nicaragua. Carrie S. Govan...