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...trouble is that there is no quick fix, even granting the greatest imaginable success for Administration policy. Suppose, for example, Nicaragua and Cuba, intimidated by the military maneuvers and the contra campaign, agreed to a verifiable end to their provision of arms and advisers to the Salvadoran guerrillas. There is no doubt that would be a blow to the insurgents: Arquimedes Canadas, once one of their leaders, said last week in Washington that Cuba has "directed the activities" of the Salvadoran insurgents since 1980. Even so, the Salvadoran insurrection may have developed enough momentum by now to continue for years...
...major disagreements within the Government. The military and naval maneuvers, to take the most prominent example, have been justified by the Administration partly as a response to a reported increase in the number of Cuban military advisers and the quantity of arms from Soviet-bloc countries showing up in Nicaragua. But the significance?and the extent?of that reported buildup is still in dispute within both the State Department and the CIA. Indeed, the maneuvers appear to have been prompted primarily by simple impatience to do something dramatic. It is indicative of the problem that what turned...
Policy made in such an ad hoc manner has left important questions unanswered. Is the U.S. in fact committed to overturning Nicaragua's Sandinista government, or only to harassing it enough to keep it from fomenting Marxist revolution throughout Central America? Reagan and his advisers have made statements that can be interpreted either way. How serious is the Administration about promoting negotiations for a regional agreement that would ban all foreign military advisers and cross-border arms shipments in Central America? Reagan last week had Special Envoy Richard Stone hand-carry a letter to the Presidents of the so-called...
...then Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who argued vociferously that the Soviet Union was going to "test" the U.S. in Central America by promoting leftist revolution. Haig went so far as to draw up contingency plans for blockading Cuba to prevent the shipment of Soviet arms from there to Nicaragua and to rebels in El Salvador. He was ordered by the White House to tone down the bellicose talk, and through most of 1982 the region got a relatively low policy priority. But last whiter Clark, by then transferred to the National Security Adviser's post, began moving to bring...
...speech to an extraordinary joint session of Congress on April 27, the legislators balked at his Salvadoran aid requests. To date Congress has voted only about half of the money the Administration sought. Also during the spring, the right-wing contras stepped up their hit-and-run raids into Nicaragua from bases and training camps in Honduras. By then, it was public knowledge that the CIA was heavily involved in these "covert" operations, training the contras and supplying them with arms. Restive over this far from secret war, congressional leaders demanded to know where the Administration's Nicaraguan policy...