Word: nicaraguan
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...WHEN A NICARAGUAN Contra member came to speak on campus a week ago at the invitation of the Conservative Club, he was shouted down by a few protesters who later threw blood and other projectiles at him. Their actions were unacceptable--though not merely because they violated his right to free speech...
Reagan is making the same mistakes today in Nicaragua. He is enabling a faltering, repressive Sandinista regime to maintain its hold on the people by allowing it to wrap itself in the Nicaraguan flag as a band of Yankee-supported brigands invade its turf...
Uncharacteristically, the Nicaraguan government also admitted that the Popular Sandinista Army had losses. "The E.P.S. suffered 156 casualties, among them 40 dead, 116 wounded," read its communique. The contras put the Sandinista death toll at 200 and their...
Reagan's intent is unambiguous: to stop Gaddafi from fomenting terrorism and to stop Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra from spreading Marxist revolution. Indeed, Reagan would not mind going one step further and getting both men right off the world stage. But eliminating such nemeses is not so easy. For all his make-my-day bluster, Reagan is no less bound than were his immediate predecessors by rules of military engagement that, while rooted in the best democratic traditions, have been carried to unreal extremes: American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over...
...same token, although the Nicaraguan incursion last week was very real, Reagan's decision to send $20 million in emergency aid to Honduras and to permit U.S. helicopters to ferry Honduran troops was very much a part of his larger struggle to rally congressional and public support for $100 million in aid to the contras. Set back by the House a week earlier, the Administration needed a win in the Senate to keep the aid package alive and unencumbered by too many strings. What better way of showing that the contras need help than to make the most of Nicaraguan...