Word: nicaraguan
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...speakers, all Law School graduates, include Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-Mary.), who sits on the Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition, Representative Anthony Beilenson (D-Cal.), Representative Sander Levin (D-Mich.), and Paul Kirk, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
Round 6, is it? President Reagan wants $105 million from Congress for next year's aid for the Nicaraguan contras. Congressionial Democrats are moving now to block $40 million of this year's aid. We revisit the debate that will not die: Should the U.S. support the Nicaraguan resistance...
...containment works in Europe: the principal function of American soldiers in forward positions is to die and thus bring the U.S. into any European war the Soviets might be tempted to start.) And if a blockade ever became necessary, the U.S. would risk confrontation not just with Nicaraguan forces but with Soviet forces as well. Why is that strategically preferable to supporting 15,000 Nicaraguans themselves prepared to fight to reclaim their country...
...overthrow its own government. That army believes that its country has been taken over by Leninists who have shut down the opposition, destroyed a free press, repressed the church and run a secret police "advised" by Cubans and East Germans. As the President of Costa Rica put it, the "Nicaraguan people . . . have fought so hard to get rid of one tyrant, one dictator, and seven years later they have nine...
...Reagan to look into the operations of the National Security Council. But to the consternation of the White House, the commission has broadened the scope of its inquiry to probe a wide variety of questions stemming from the arms deals with Iran and covert efforts to support the Nicaraguan contras. Among the disclosures that preceded the report's release...