Word: nicaragua
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...Nicaragua's contra rebels...
...sporadic clashes in the mountains and jungles of Nicaragua's thinly populated northern provinces so far scarcely deserve to be called a war. The forces involved are minor. On one side are perhaps 2,000 exiles, known as contras, who have slipped back into the country from bases in Honduras, where they were trained as guerrillas; on the other are a scattering of militia and border guards of Nicaragua's Marxist Sandinista government. Casualties in the past month total a few hundred, of whom many were peasants killed almost at random. But the political struggle touched...
...proposing curriculum reform at West Point. But he never answers what such reform is for, aside from bet- ter fighting "the Soviets." It remains unclear whether, with the Coloradan in the Oval Office, the United States would continue to fight Communism in the outreaches of El Salvador and Nicaragua. We may, upon prodding, answer these questions too, but it is disturbing to imagine a president who, when considering domestic and foreign problems, reacts immediately for more jobs and better weaponry, without pausing to answer for whom and for what...
...League is opposed to ROTC--the direct use of the university for the military training of the future butchers of workers and peasants around the world. Fully 70 percent of U.S. Army officers are recruited and trained by ROTC. Today their "adventures" include a Bay of Pigs II against Nicaragua, arming and training the bloody Salvadoran junta, dropping napalm (invented at Harvard) on Cambodia. Tomorrow they hope to annihilate the USSR...
...have to tell you that neither does my Government. We don't think that the problems there result simply from outside intervention. There are social and economic problems of long standing that must be resolved. We are seeking more economic aid for El Salvador than military aid. In Nicaragua, we would like to see . . . pluralism and representative democracy and freedom of the press. We do think that there is a chance for self-government to emerge in an area that has long lived without it. We regret the success that antidemocratic forces have had in convincing too many people...