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...want to sound rude or anything, but please, Mr. Reagan, take your Pershings, neutron bombs and cruise missiles and get out of Germany! We are old enough to take care of ourselves. Tens of thousands of innocent people in Viet Nam, Chile and Nicaragua have already died in the name of freedom and liberty. We don't want to be next in line. I'm not anti-American or proSoviet. I'm simply a human being and I don't want to get nuked off this world by a friend...
Ambassador to the U.N. under Jimmy Carter and a former member of the contact group: "We are in danger of being on the wrong and losing side, as we were in Viet Nam, Iran and Nicaragua." A tilt toward South Africa, he adds, is "shortsighted, naive and part of [the Administration's] ideology and paranoia toward Communism. The South Africans' hope is to turn attention away from self-determination and racial domination to an East-West arena...
...free-spending foreign aid program any time soon. That is much appreciated in Washington. The Reagan Administration, which has given a more military emphasis to the U.S. foreign aid program, is counting on Venezuela's charitable deeds to help stem the kind of political radicalism that produced Nicaragua's Sandinista government. Secretary of State Alexander Haig met in Nassau last month with the Venezuelan, Mexican and Canadian foreign ministers to map the outlines for a long-term development policy in the Caribbean area, and the officials will meet again later this year to discuss the most obvious economic...
...have been his only motive. Panama's daily La Republica, whose editor met with Pastora shortly after his arrival, reported that the Nicaraguan had left following a "break with [Interior Minister Tomas] Borge and the Reds" over the presence of "many military observers from Cuba in Nicaragua," along with increasing numbers of Cuban and Soviet "political units...
Miguel d'Escoto is both a Maryknoll priest and Foreign Minister in the new radical, reformist government of Nicaragua. Pope John Paul II has made it bluntly clear that he wants all priests to get out of politics. So have the bishops of Nicaragua. But D'Escoto and other colleagues refuse, saying that they must first serve God by serving the people and the revolution. D'Escoto's position has stirred concern-and rage-about the Maryknoll order across Latin America...