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...leadership ability rather than his years. The question, declared the challenger, is "Who's in charge?" Mondale accused Reagan of failing to exert control, specifically with respect to security measures in the face of terrorist threats in Beirut, a CIA handbook advising political assassinations, blackmail and kidnapings in Nicaragua, and fights within his Government about arms-control policy. Declared Mondale: "A President must not only assure that we're tough. [He] must also be wise and smart in the exercise of that power...
Neither candidate dealt especially well with questions about Central America. Reagan was defensive and unsure in discussing a CIA manual that gave U.S.-supported contra guerrillas battling the Sandinista government of Nicaragua advice on how to assassinate Sandinista officials. The President said the manual had been written by "a gentlemen down in Nicaragua [he meant in Central America] who is on contract" to the CIA, and the CIA both in Central America and Washington had excised several pages. "Some way or other," however, the offending pages had stayed in copies of the manual distributed to the contras. Reagan strongly denied...
While Mondale may have got the better of that exchange, he had some trouble explaining his own policy toward Central America. Asked to define his suggestion for a "quarantine" of Nicaragua, he replied that Nicaragua would have to stay within its own borders, but did not explain how he proposed to have the U.S. stop it if it did not. For Central America generally, he advocated a three-pronged policy of economic aid, military assistance to forces friendly to the U.S. and "a diplomatic effort" to "pursue opportunities for peace" with America's foes. Reagan's reply: "The plan...
...Nicaragua is a country that people know very little about, yet the [U.S] government says is so important to our national interest," said Carol Reyes, another of the student visitors who said she wants "to educate people...
...precipice of economic catastrophe and endured a litany of international embarassments under the Carter-Mondale Administration. Inflation soared to nearly 20 percent, causing the poor the elderly, and students to fear for their futures. The dollar tumbled to record lows on world currency exchanges. Foreign policy debacles in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, the Canal Zone and Iran dogged the pride of our nation...