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...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...
...right. All this furor results from some recent acts of irrational slaughter that claimed fewer than 50 civilians--a trivial toll in comparison with, for example, the Lebanese citizens killed during the Israeli occupation of that country, or for that matter with last year's butchery by U.S.-funded Nicaraguan "contras" and the U.S.-supported apartheid government of South Africa. In the recent airport attacks, a handful of Americans died along with several handfuls of Europeans. This episode, says Reagan and now The Crimson, gives the U.S. the right to set European countries' foreign policies...