Word: nicaragua
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...APPROXIMATELY a year before the war, the Reagan Administration, primarily in the person of United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, had been vigorously courting Argentina. Kirkpatrick, hoping to gain practical support for the United States positions concerning Nicaragua and El Salvador, was laying the groundwork for lifting the arms embargo imposed by Jimmy Carter, and according to Argentine sources, had indicated that the U.S. would give any military excursion to the Falklands a sympathetic hearing. But the magnitude of the British response put the United States in the difficult position of deciding where its loyalties lay in the conflict--realizing that...
...United States decision to back the British are still unclear. Ronald Reagan made an attempt to mend some fences on his trip to Latin America last year, and Argentinian-trained insurgents supplied with U.S. arms were responsible for the destruction of port installations at Puerto Cabeza in Nicaragua in 1983. Funding for training Argentinian soldiers is included in the current Reagan budget, some economic limitations have been lifted, and the President would clearly like to loosen arms restrictions Argentina, however, has been making friendly overtures to Cuba and has refused to participate in hemispheric naval exercises as a protest against...
...governs all types of pollution; the other deals specifically with oil spills. Negotiated under the auspices of the U.N. Environment Program, the treaties are relatively toothless declarations of good intent. But they have one notable aspect: the enthusiastic backing of such foes as the U.S. and Cuba, Honduras and Nicaragua. It is one of the rare times that the Reagan White House and Castro's Cuba have come to terms in an international agreement. Said Mostafa K. Tolba, executive director of the U.N. Environment Program: "I firmly believe that common environmental interests will overcome any political and economic differences...
...foreign policy goal of fighting leftist power worldwide. To this end, substantial American military and economic aid is needed to support those governments which are actively combating leftist elements, no matter how repressive such regimes may be. For, as the Reagan Administration has concluded (reinforced by the example of Nicaragua), the alternative to those regimes may be much worse...
...light of the political consequences of United States support for such leaders as the Shah of Iran and General Somoza in Nicaragua, the Reagan Administration would be well-advised to follow its own advice...