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...closed-door sessions with the Senate Intelligence Committee, CIA Director William Casey and Secretary of State George Shultz emerged with what seemed to be a strong endorsement of one of the Administration's most hotly contested policies: providing aid to guerrilla opponents of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua as a means of checking that country's efforts to aid leftist insurgents in El Salvador. The proposal must now go before a far more hostile House of Representatives, but the Senators' warm response raised White House hopes that it would eventually be approved...
Meanwhile, the Administration could be heartened by the results of some investigative reporting in Nicaragua. Newsmen visiting an island near a small fishing village on the northwestern Zamora coast, just 40 miles from the Salvadoran border, uncovered the remains of what appears to have been a depot for smuggling arms to guerrillas in El Salvador, including a Sandinista army banner, rifle shell casings and a radio antenna. The discovery buttressed U.S. claims that Nicaragua routinely supplies the Salvadoran rebels by boat across the Gulf of Fonseca...
Spalter, who traveled to Nicaragua last year on an international youth fact-finding mission, said the International Federation of Liberal and Radical Youth is paying for his trip...
...direction of the current American economic and political policies towards several Latin American countries. He criticized what he called the Reagan Administration's "reluctance to view the political and economic affairs in Latin America in their true perspective," adding that recent U.S. policies "have moved such countries as Nicaragua further away from the American sphere of influence rather than bringing them closer...
...United States on the world seas is very nearly uncontested. Carrier operations of the type I saw are still a virtual monopoly for us. In some other areas of seapower, the Soviet Union is well-equipped to match our forces. But such superpower considerations are almost secondary in the Nicaragua and Lebanon situations, where we possess crushing superiority. Reagan's record on use of this superiority received a healthy boost this summer; it is an approach he should not abandon...