Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--Two House panels voted yesterday to recommend against giving $100 million to rebels fighting the leftist Nicaraguan government. President Reagan insisted that the money must be approved so the United States will not have to send "our own American boys" into the conflict...
...latest efforts to support democracy in Nicaragua, Reagan--backed by clamoring cold-warriors like Krauthammer--is seeking $100 million in aid for the Contra rebels that have inflicted several million dollars worth of damage on the struggling Nicaraguan economy and have killed on wounded over 12,000 people, most of them civilians...
Secretary of State George C. Shultz described the Sandinista administration last December as "a cancer in Central America that has got to be removed." To do this the Reagan Administration is seeking $100 million in military and economic aid to foot the bills of the Nicaraguan Contras as they wage war against the government. Military support, the administration claims, is the only alternative to the direct involvement of North American troops...
...TRAGEDY OF the administration's position is that a policy of non-negotiation is not the only approach to the Nicaraguan situation. The Contadora group--Mexico, Colombia, Panama, and Venezuela--has recently resurfaced after a period of inactivity to offer a plausible alternative to this brutal approach. Ministers from the four Contadora nations met last month with officials from Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Uruguay to issue a joint statement calling for a negotiated settlement to the Nicaraguan...
...DENYING the Contadora group full support, Washington is putting the countries of Central America in a position where they have to choose between the friendship of the Northern power or of a Central American neighbor. Contadora will never resolve the Nicaraguan conflict without active U.S. participation. The Reagan Administration has steadfastly ignored Contadora's objectives: peace, democracy and stability, in both the long and short term. It is up to Congress to incorporate these goals into U.S. policy...