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WASHINGTON--As a scholar of presidential success and failure, Littauer Professor of Public Administration Richard E. Neustadt watches the Nicaraguan aid debate unfold and wonders where it all will...
Looking ahead to Thursday's House vote on President Reagan's $100 million aid package for the Nicaraguan rebels, Neustadt said Reagan might score a political victory "but it really is threatening to set us up on a course that is endless," a course he said could involve the United States in Latin American revolutions for years to come...
WASHINGTON--Supporters and foes of giving $100 million to Nicaraguan rebels claimed yesterday that public support is running in their favor, but conceded that a crucial House vote later in the week will be close...
...contras operated across almost a third of Nicaragua, their campaign underwritten by U.S. aid. Today, crippled in part by Congress's < fickle approach to supplying aid, only some 4,000 remain in Nicaragua; the rest have been forced by a vigorous Sandinista counteroffensive to retreat across the border. Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra has said that the contras have "totally lost the initiative." For once, the American military seems to agree with the Sandinistas. Admits General John Galvin, commander of the U.S. Southern Command: "They need training, they need advice in terms of strategy, tactics and senior leadership. Their...
...principal contra army, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), consisting of about 15,000 men, is spread among four bases north of Nicaragua in Honduras. Two small rebel bases lie just inside Nicaragua to the south, close to the border, and several camps and a base are in Costa Rica. Says Enrique Bermudez, the FDN's commander in chief: "Close to 70% of our fighting force has become confined to our camps, defending them on the one hand and awaiting supplies on the other." The main contra base, in the middle of the jungle 30 miles inside Honduras, has a cluster...