Word: nicaragua
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...liberals, who claim to support the underdogs, the oppressed, the wimps of the world, like to argue that the bully is running because in the final analysis he has no moral defense. The United States' actions in Nicaragua are immoral, as well as wrongheaded and antithetical to our interests in the region, and the World Court affair shows us President Reagan's brazen disregard for democratic ideals...
...REAGAN Administration is like the school yard bully who thinks the rules apply to everyone but himself. Late last week the Marxist Sandinista government of Nicaragua announced plans to file suit in the International Court of Justice charging the United States "with training, supplying and directing military and paramilitary actions against the people and government of Nicaragua, resulting in extensive loss of lives and property...
...place, this is an example of falling prey to the standard right wing flaw of seeing all Socialist groups as monolithic supporters of the Kremlin. Governments usually do not turn to the Soviets out of choice, but out of necessity. While America provided some support to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, its indifference (and now active opposition) has pushed Nicaragua toward the Soviet camp...
This was the first debate since the already-infamous WBZ-TV interviews last week in which some of the candidates could not answer questions such as "Who is Israel's prime minister?" and "Whom does the U.S. support in Nicaragua and El Salvador?" Turner asked Bartley, who was embarrassed when he could not answer any of the four questions on last Monday's broadcast, what he thought of the questions' "fairness...
...would simply cu off U.S. military aid to El Salvador unti all death-squad activity ceased. Mondale would link U.S. aid to El Salvador to progress on land reform and an end to the death squads. He would continue the U.S. efforts to interdict the flow of arms from Nicaragua to the Salvadoran rebels, but unlike President Reagan, he would not back the contras against the Nicaraguan regime. Mondale would leave troops in Honduras while he attempted to negotiate the withdrawal of some 2,000 Cuban soldiers from Nicaragua. He would, however, "substantially reduce" American force levels there (from...