Word: nicaragua
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...tendency to repeat itself [Nov. 21]: in the past two decades history has taught us that we must respect another country's right to self-determination. Failure on our part to recognize this aspiration only leads to intransigence by the emerging nation. That is why our position in Nicaragua could very well lead us into a repetition of Viet...
...incident underscored the little-publicized fact that for the past year the rebels have relied almost totally upon captured U.S. weapons to meet their military needs, not upon arms smuggled in from Nicaragua, Cuba or the Soviet Union. The guerrillas received supplies from Nicaragua during the early stages of the civil war, but by last spring some U.S. officials in the region were admitting that the flow had slowed to a "trickle." Nonetheless, the Administration has justified its support of rebels fighting Nicaragua's Marxist-led government largely on the ground that their actions are necessary to stop...
...Nicaragua did not necessarily cut the arms pipeline because of U.S. pressure. According to the rebels, they have been so successful in seizing weapons that additional aid would be superfluous. Though F.M.L.N. claims that 90% of its arms have come from the U.S.-trained Salvadoran army may be inflated, there is little doubt that the guerrillas have all they need. The insurgents claim that during the first five months of 1983, they seized 1,700 assault rifles, 27 mortars, 20 grenade launchers and 37 machine guns. Rebels refer to their rifles as "my gift from Reagan...
LETS SAY YOU are a leader of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. After four years of authoritarian rule following the overthrow of dictator Anastasio Somoza, you recognize that you are losing support among the left-leaning democracies and are wasting valuable resources funding an enormous fighting machine to oppose the U.S. backed counter-revolutionaries operating from Honduras. So you make some significant conciliatory gestures to your critics. For example, you ask more than 2000 Cuban civilians and military advisors to return home, you lift censorship controls on the press; you engage in dialogue with the opposition parties; you plan elections...
Agreed, increases in death-squad murders should not be supported, but neither should any form of illegal war against Nicaragua be tolerated...