Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...REAGAN Administration's insistence on military intervention in Nicaragua is leading to disaster. The administration's stated aim is to topple the Nicaraguan government, but in the single-minded pursuit of that goal the U.S. government is ignoring opportunities for a peaceful resolution of the tensions in Central America...
...Presidents, interspersed with inspirational film clips and reports in TV- magazine format. Robertson's political commentary is also a staple, whether on domestic issues like abortion ("We are offering up 1 1/2 million babies a year upon the altar of sensuality and selfishness") or international topics like the Nicaraguan contras. (The U.S. has "a moral obligation," Robertson maintains, to support "freedom fighters" who battle "satanic" Communism...
Bachrach outlined a liberal foreign policy agenda of improved relations with the Nicaraguan government, sanctions against South Africa, and pressure for democratic reform on authoritative regimes in Chile, the Phillippines, and South Korea...
...whose hard-pressed members expected $20 billion in subsidies this year and now see that harvest shriveling. Not us, cried the operators of the New York City subways, who have no hope of keeping fares at $1 if they lose their subsidy of $550 million. Not us, cried the Nicaraguan contras, who got only $27 million in "nonmilitary" aid last year and now want $100 million, with $60 million for real weapons. Not us, cried the Internal Revenue Service, which after all collects the money...
Administration officials express confidence that sentiment is turning against the Nicaraguan government. "I sense a certain militancy growing," said one senior aide to Reagan. Congress last year limited U.S. help to the contras to $27 million in humanitarian supplies and cut off all military aid. Only days after that decision, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega Saavedra flew off to visit Moscow; interpreting the trip as a nose-thumbing gesture, some Congressmen said they regretted having rejected the military funding. Ortega's government has cracked down further on the freedom of the clergy and the press. "People have come to know...