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Some of Reagan's aides wanted him to focus his speech solely on the economic development plan, talking of plowshares rather than swords. Their aim was to tone down his hawkish image, especially concerning Cuba and Nicaragua, and to keep him personally insulated from the trying situation in El Salvador. Secretary of State Alexander Haig, however, argued that the President must include firm warnings about Communist expansion. He insisted that it would be misleading to be silent about the pressing security problems of the troubled area...
Enders is determined that the U.S. keep struggling toward "away between Somoza and Sandino" a referance to the late U.S.-backed dictator Anastasio Somoza for Nicaragua and the anti-American guerrilla Augusto Cesar Sandino, for whom Nicaragua's ruling leftist Sandinista movement is named. The alliterative phrase He as an Enders aide said, a rueful reminder that Nicaragua is "gone." He considers El Salvador pivotal because if moderates fail to maintain power there, then to Guatemala and even Costa Rica are vulnerable to insurgency...
...necessary to insure the peace and security" of the region. We can only presume that asking Congress for an additional $135 million in economic and military aid for EI Salvador represents such "prudent and necessary" action. And plainly, cutting the last drop of assistance to struggling but leftist Nicaragua is the best way to insure the "peace and security" of the region...
Reagan's conspicuous denial of aid to leftist countries in the Caribbean will also prove counter-productive. Mexican President Lopez Portillo has declared he will not participate in any plan that excludes Nicaragua and Cuba--which is precisely what the Reagan program does. But without the support of Lopez Portillo--who is trusted by Reagan and Caribbean leftists alike, a rare combination--any initiative in the basin has only a dim chance of success. And cutting off Nicaragua will only increase the Sandinistas' reliance on the Soviet Union...
...slit his throat. That grisly incident may be pure propaganda. But there is little doubt that the offensive it was intended to justify-an undeclared war on the mostly peaceful, independent Indians who only recently were among the Sandinistas' friends-marks a new, brutal and tragic phase in Nicaragua's revolution. -By Russ Hoyle