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Both sides in the Great Contra Debate are using as a scare tactic the possibility that the U.S. might have to intervene directly in Nicaragua. Opponents of the Administration have warned for years that the contras are the forerunners of American troops. Now, just in the past few weeks, Reagan, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan have turned the argument around, invoking the specter of G.I.s in the jungle as something that no one wants to see but that might be required down the road if the Congress defies the President now. Sooner...
...discuss politics,' he said. And we did. He has a remarkable, nimble mind. The hours with him and Wanda were like reliving not only the history of music in this century but also reviewing the spectacle of war and peace from the Russian Revolution to the agony over Nicaragua and Libya...
Even before the resignation, the issue of U.S. credibility was very much in the news last week as Administration spokesmen scrambled to convince skeptical reporters that the U.S. had no official connection to the Americans shot down over Nicaragua. White House officials, who have insisted they did not deliberately mislead the public about U.S. intentions toward Libya, were embarrassed and miffed by Kalb's dramatic gesture. One White House aide was particularly irritated that he had quit just before the summit in Reykjavík, "when he knew full well we hadn't misled anyone on purpose. His timing could have...
...American named Eugene Hasenfus. The prisoner looked the part he played. Hasenfus, 45, a gung-ho patriot and soldier of fortune, had been captured after parachuting from a U.S. plane that was shot down by Nicaraguan soldiers while on a mission to deliver arms to contra rebels in southern Nicaragua. Three other men, two Americans and a Nicaraguan, were killed in the crash...
...offered no resistance, and was marched off to a Sandinista base camp. The following day he was helicoptered to Managua, where, unshaven and haggard, he made a brief statement to the press: "My name is Gene Hasenfus. I come from Marinette, Wis. I was captured yesterday in southern Nicaragua. Thank you." He was then whisked away to detention and interrogated at El Chipote prison. Captain Ricardo Wheelock, chief of army intelligence, proudly called Hasenfus the Nicaraguans' first U.S. "prisoner...