Word: nicaragua
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...Harvard professors are helping devise the curriculum for a newly established summer school in Nicaragua where American college students will study Spanish and perform volunteer work in the community...
...Agency. He hung by his thumbs for two months while a group of Senators played President, not their job. They were rebuked, and Adelman was confirmed. Reagan's covert operations in Central America got more attention than he anticipated and slowed him down in using the CIA in Nicaragua and sending more military advisers to El Salvador. But Reagan will have another say this week in a speech before a joint session of Congress...
...sides retained significant but friendly differences. The U.S. visitors underscored Washington's conviction that the Marxist-led guerrilla insurgency in El Salvador, which is now in its fourth year, is part of a subversive wave that is covertly backed by the Soviet Union and Cuba as well by Nicaragua. They explained that the U.S.'s increasingly controversial policies in the region, including economic and military support for El Salvador and sponsorship of a covert insurgency against Nicaragua, are a response to that provocation. Secretary of State Shultz, said a senior U.S. diplomat, "expressed in very firm terms...
...another murky incident unfolded when the Sandinistas revealed the mysterious suicide in Nicaragua of one of El Salvador's most important guerrilla leaders, Salvador Cayetano Carpio, 63. Cayetano Carpio was the head of the rebel faction known as the Popular Forces of Liberation, the most determinedly Marxist-Leninist of the country's guerrilla organizations. According to the Sandinistas, he took his own life on April 12, after the equally mysterious assassination in Nicaragua a week earlier of his No. 2 guerrilla commander, Melida Anaya Montes, better known as Ana Maria. The Nicaraguans announced the arrest of five other...
...break out in Central America, it would be very difficult to control. The basic problem of these countries lies in the underdeveloped economic and social state in which their populations suffer. We understand the revolutionary movements we have observed, because the prevailing regimes, notably in the case of Nicaragua, have been dictatorships using violence that reached deplorable extremes. For us, conservative dictatorships are the major manufacturers of domestic violence, revolutions and insurrections...