Word: nicaragua
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...Kfir-C2 jet fighter to the Honduran air force, but it must first secure U.S. permission because the Kfirs are equipped with American-built General Electric J79 turbojets. Despite warnings from some U.S. Government quarters that such a deal will simply invite the stationing of Soviet MiGs in Nicaragua and escalate the Central American arms race, the Reagan Administration is now considering giving its approval...
...Israeli arms sales campaign also has political goals: to win new friends and to support governments that oppose the radical Arab states and particularly the Palestine Liberation Organization. In Central America the Israelis are actively wooing the regimes that are hostile to Cuba and Nicaragua, two countries that strongly support the P.L.O. The policy, in short, is based on the ancient adage that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend...
...most telling tributes came from the group that had most preoccupied Marx: the working class. In Nicaragua, the employees of a soap factory vowed to work double shifts for one week in honor of Marx and "in defense of the revolution." In China, a zealous textile worker went to the trouble of engraving the entire text of the Communist Manifesto (about 20,000 Chinese characters) onto an ivory block 15 mm by 15 mm by 50 mm. It was an odd way to honor the man who had urged the workers of the world to shake off their chains...
...church agencies and "is not given to political organizations." Actually, it has funded a number of secular groups that are unarguably political, and one-sidedly so. One recipient is the North American Congress on Latin America. Unapologetically leftist, it hardly ever finds anything to criticize in Cuba or Nicaragua. Two other groups funded by the churches helped set up the n Washington-based Committee in Solidarity with the People of E1 Salvador, a totally uncritical support group for the partly Marxist guerrilla forces in that nation. Shrugs one of its officials: "In a war, innocent people get killed...
...which has 8000 members nation-wide and about 30 at Harvard-also supports the nuclear freeze and calls for negotiated settlements in EI Salvador. Israel, and Nicaragua...