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Some Washington mystics have attributed this uncharacteristic intransigence on the Nicaraguan problem to the extra voices Reagan heeds when the issue is Central America. Two months back in The New Republic, a white House aide told Carl Bernstein that the President has a stable of wily Svengalis--"His reservoir of right-wing friends and contacts from the old days"--urging him rightward into Nicaragua. "He can be his own worst enemy, particularly when he gets some hare-brained ideas from reading right-wing garbage," the aide told Berstein. "A lot of times that's when the trouble starts...
Brinkley produced an even more astounding article just 10 days ago in the Times, detailing consistent Administration exaggerations of both Soviet influence and Nicaraguan ambitions...
...what possibilities there are for a national dialogue that would permit the incorporation of opposition groups into (those sanctioned by Nicaragua's) new constitution. Such a dialogue is very difficult, but Nicaragua finds itself in a very grave economic situation. The Inter-American Development Bank is considering a Nicaraguan application for resources; the U.S. has opposed the request. We feel it should be approved...
...food, refuge and, occasionally, recruits. Described in the official Sandinista newspaper Barricada as "the rescue of thousands of peasants from the isolation that allowed the counterrevolution to utilize them," the evacuation could bring about an escalation of the war. Once the farmers are safely out of the way, the Nicaraguan military will have created a free-fire zone in which it can use some of the dozen or so Mi-24 "Hind" helicopters it has received from the Soviet Union. The gunships, equipped with rockets and fast-firing guns, wield devastating firepower. Said Orlando Osario, a refugee evacuated with...
Only a few months ago, a Nicaraguan friend, an exSandinista who still speaks their language, said in near despair that the struggle of democrats around the world was doomed by the absence in the West of what he called "democratic militance." The Reagan Doctrine represents a first step toward its restoration...