Word: nicaraguan
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...more direct effort to squeeze the Nicaraguan government, the U.S. has opposed a proposal by the Inter-American Development Bank, a lending institution supported by 43 nations, to grant a $58 million loan to that country. Secretary of State George Shultz personally expressed "strong opposition" to the loan, claiming that it would enable the Sandinistas to "free other money that could be used to help consolidate the Marxist regime and finance Nicaragua's aggression against its neighbors." The bank's top officers agreed to reconsider the loan...
...organizations that monitor human-rights abuses issued reports last week that will make it more difficult for the Administration to win over Congress. Americas Watch, a private nonpartisan group that monitors human-rights abuses in the hemisphere, contended that the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the largest rebel group, employs "the deliberate use of terror." The Washington Office on Latin America, a coalition of religious and academic groups, issued a report citing at least 28 murders, rapes, assaults and instances of torture committed by the contras...
...Shultz-Ortega exchange was a brief respite from the heated propaganda battle that went on last week between the Reagan Administration and the Sandinistas. From Montevideo to the Nicaraguan capital of Managua to hearing rooms on Capitol Hill, the adversaries were engaged in rhetorical offensives to win the support, not so much of Central Americans, but of U.S. Congressmen. The hope on both sides: to sway U.S. legislators as they ponder the question of restoring aid to some 12,500 U.S.-backed contra rebels who are fighting the Nicaraguan regime. At week's end the funding struggle remained deadlocked...
...America for far too long. It is time to play brother." Speaking to a group of Canadian business executives during a Time Inc. news tour in Washington, Delaware's Democratic Senator Joseph Biden charged that "we have simply been lied to" about the Administration's aims in supporting the Nicaraguan rebels. Said Biden: "If (Reagan) wants to overthrow the government, make the case to overthrow the government...
...harshest exchange of all preceded the Shultz trip to Montevideo, when the Secretary of State appeared briefly before a subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Democratic Congressman Ted Weiss of New York City took Shultz to task for mentioning a possible Cuban and Nicaraguan role in international drug trafficking. Then, in a classic case of overstatement, Weiss heatedly added that Shultz's remarks "remind me of the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954." Shultz reddened and replied angrily, "When you compare me to Senator (Joseph) McCarthy, I resent it deeply." The Secretary refused to testify further until he received...