Word: nicaragua
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...Reagan administration carries out a rhetorical, and arguably an actual, war against Nicaragua, an group of Harvard faculty members who have visited the country is publicly challenging the Administration's portrayal of and policies towards the small Central American nation...
...from being the totalitarian state depicted by State Department spokesmen, these professors and administrators describe Nicaragua as a beleaguered country engaged in a noble experiment but threatened by U.S. backed invaders. Should Nicaragua be forced to fight for its survival, the professors say, it may well become a military state--out of necessity, not out of ideological preference...
...human rights organization has sent four fact-finding trips to Central America in the past two years. The trips include five-day stays in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras and a series of interviews with both pro and anti-government groups...
...have no business telling a country how to run itself, what kind of government or economy to have,' says Dr. Barry M. Lester, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Medical School who travelled to Nicaragua on the same trip as Steiner...
Steiner, who teaches a course on international human rights, brims with indignation towards U.S. policy in Central America. After visiting the region this June, he describes. Nicaragua as a country "attempting a deep social transformation that could go in a number of directions. One is towards a humane, participatory and inventive society the other towards a one party, tightly controlled state...