Word: nicaraguan
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...decry, in unusually harsh terms, the "incessant" buildup of other arms supplies in Nicaragua. Weinberger pointedly compared Moscow's current stockpiling of the country to its step-by-step militarization of Cuba nearly 25 years ago. The U.S. increased surveillance of the Soviet freighter Bakuriani, docked at the Nicaraguan port of Corinto, and of four other Warsaw Pact ships believed headed for Nicaraguan waters. The Administration repeated warnings that any attempt to introduce advanced fighter aircraft into the Nicaraguan arsenal would be "unacceptable" (see WORLD...
...Most Nicaraguans, however, remained calm. Despite the government's repeated alarms, residents of Managua made their way to work as usual on the city's overcrowded buses. Schoolchildren played outdoors, even gathering in clusters around the squat, forbidding tanks. Occasionally the civic mood was shattered by a sonic boom, which the government attributed to high-flying U.S. SR-71 spy planes violating Nicaraguan airspace. Despite the noisy interruptions, few Nicaraguans seemed concerned about the putative Yanqui invasion...
...similar case of schizophrenia seemed to be afflicting the Reagan Administration. At a meeting of the 31-member Organization of American States in Brasilia, Secretary of State George Shultz pooh-poohed the Nicaraguan war hysteria as "self-induced... based on nothing." Said he: "Obviously they're trying to whip up their own population. But I can't imagine what the reason is for doing that." Then Shultz provided a possible answer. The U.S., he said in reference to Nicaragua's Soviet-sponsored arms buildup, was "trying to work in any way we can to cast this aggressive...
...greatly appreciated Jonathan Feigleson's article, "Ted Koppel Blames the Victim." I agree that the Nicaraguan side needs to be presented...
...spent the past summer in Nicaragua and saw ample justification for Nicaraguan fear of a U.S. military invasion...