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With the withdrawal of U.S. Marines under way in Lebanon, the political heat on the Administration's policy there was easing a bit on Capitol Hill. But it was rising again on U.S. military aid to the government of El Salvador and to the antigovernment rebels in Nicaragua. Secretary of State George Shultz last week defended the Administration before two Senate committees and in a speech on human rights. Said he: "American foreign policy, taken around the world, is going extremely well...
...rapidly changing world. None of the earlier epochs has known such sweeping and dynamic changes. Social change is literally knocking at the doors of the most ossified tyrannical regimes before our very eyes. In Latin America this is evidenced conclusively by the collapse of the dictatorship in Nicaragua ... the people's movement in El Salvador, the growing will of all nations of the continent toward independence and freedom. The United States wishes to oppose these changes by its "rapid deployment force," by permanent power pressure against countries pursuing a policy unpalatable to it. This is a dangerous line. Indeed...
Firmenich escaped to Europe, where he issued defiant manifestoes and embraced luminaries like Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Firmenich also bragged from exile that his Montoneros played a small but vital part in the 1979 Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua...
...foreign affairs, all except Glenn stress the need for U.S.-Soviet summit meetings to reduce tensions. All would cut off U.S. aid to the rebels fighting the Marxist-led government in Nicaragua, and all would halt military aid to the Salvadoran regime unless death-squad activity stops. McGovern would withdraw U.S. military aid and troops from Central America, including Honduras. None of the Democrats would loosen U.S. ties to Israel, although McGovern and Jackson urge a more even hand in the Middle East. Yet even Jackson praises Israel as "the most brilliant flower in God's garden...
...Nestle boycott offers an inspiring example to be followed where economic pressures can be influential. At the same time, however, it is important to note that this technique probably cannot change situations where violence is used for political purposes, as in EI Salvador, Nicaragua or Nambia. But within the United States, a wide range of nonviolent sanctions do exist, and the Nestle boycott proves that such methods can be put to good...