Word: nicaraguan
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...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...
...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...
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...