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...attempt to justify the morality of America's covert activity in Nicaragua has become irrelevant. As is evident from your article "Uneasy over a Secret War" [May 16], U.S. operations in Nicaragua have clearly and irreversibly ceased to be covert. To engage in secret actions and be caught is one thing. To persist in this conduct after it has been exposed is something else. The Reagan Administration's policy in Nicaragua may not only be a failure. It also flies in the face of what Thomas Jefferson once described as "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind...
...appalled by the letters of Messrs. Webster and Kootnikoff [May 9]. The former eulogizes the Sandinista government's supposed popularity, and the latter claims that Nicaragua is a remarkably free society. As an American businessman who lived in Nicaragua for 15 years, I protest. If these readers are correct, why have the Sandinistas not opened the country to free elections? Why were business leaders thrown in jail for criticizing the government? Why was I advised by our State Department not to return to Nicaragua after testifying before a congressional subcommittee on the Nicaraguan situation? The Sandinistas are terrorists...
...Sandinista threat. Nicaragua has said in an international forum that Honduras is threatening and hurting it. It is Nicaragua that is a base for a war of conquest in the Caribbean Basin. Nicaragua is supporting subversion in Honduras and uses our territory for the traffic in arms. We are also seeing a disproportionate growth in the Sandinista armed forces. In a period of three years, they have grown more than threefold [to 27,000]. I do not believe they are increasing their military just for parade purposes. When you think about the fact that the Nicaraguan economy...
...NATO military umbrella can negotiate with Communists. But it is very difficult to coexist with Communism in a Latin context. We are a fragile democracy. Can we exist with a Soviet base in the region? We would be facing a superpower, the Soviet Union, through its surrogates, Nicaragua and Cuba. If Nicaragua had a Nicaraguan type of Communism, this would be a different situation...
...contras. I believe that in a short time there will be a general insurrection in Nicaragua. The situation should become clearer in the next few months. There will come a time when the opposition in Nicaragua will need sizable logistical support. It would be very sad if it does not receive that support. It would freeze the opposition and allow the regime to consolidate. The result would be brutal repression. Since President Reagan has said the U.S. is helping this effort, for the U.S. to allow 7,000 people to go in and then leave them out on a limb...