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Discussing what he would do if his proposed negotiations with the Sandinistas should fail and Nicaragua continued to interfere in the affairs of its neighbors, Mondale gave a startling answer that kept him and his aides backpedaling furiously for much of the week. The candidate first said he would "continue to interdict" and would apply pressure through European allies and the Contadora countries (Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela), measures that he had previously mentioned...
Then he continued, "And we should try to quarantine Nicaragua if it uses force outside of its borders." A military quarantine is generally considered an act of war, and it is a far more drastic step than any so far advocated by Reagan, making Mondale sound more hawkish than his opponent. Mondale twice amended the answer in later remarks, saying he had meant that a quarantine would be a legitimate response to the establishment of a Soviet or Cuban military base in Nicaragua, and then only as an "option" to be used in consultation with U.S. allies in the region...
...State George Shultz at the U.S. Mission to the U.N. The Americans wanted to raise a wide variety of regional and bilateral issues during this session, including such disagreeable matters as Soviet aid to antigovernment rebels in El Salvador, Moscow's ties to the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the continuing crackdown on freedoms in Poland. Shultz was prepared even to broach the subject of human rights in the Soviet Union, according to a senior White House official, primarily to satisfy various East European constituencies that take note of such frequently hopeless exchanges. Said a U.S. diplomat: "We will...
Once in Central America. Lester says, he frequently left the group and showed up unannounced at local health care facilities. In Nicaragua, he observed an impressive commitment to health care on the part of the Sandinistas and tremendous improvement against polio, typhoid and a host of childhood diseases...
...What makes Nicaragua unique in the region is that in there human beings are treated as a valuable resource. The priorities of the Nicaraguan government are related to issues of health and education," says Lester...