Word: nicaraguan
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...subsequent revelations that the American CIA had directed and supervised it from a mother ship off Nicaragua's Pacific coast is on another order of magnitude altogether. A troublesome rift has opened in the nation's alliances, symbolized by a French offer to help sweep the mines from Nicaraguan waters. The U.S. has been put on the defensive in world forums, first casting a veto...
...Congress. Enraged by a feeling that they had been misled about the Administration's Central American policy, and deeply worried about where that policy is leading, the Senate passed by a landslide vote of 84 to 12 a nonbinding resolution demanding that no U.S. money be used to mine Nicaraguan waters. Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater voiced his colleagues' anger and dismay in an astonishingly pungent letter to CIA Director William Casey. Said Mr. Conservative: "I am pissed off ... The President has asked us to back his foreign policy. Bill, how can we back his foreign policy when...
...seeking to avoid: a democracy, however weak, becoming a potentially hostile leftist state. The contras must not be allowed to stand in the way of a settlement with Nicaragua, should one become possible, and American aid to their cause should not extend to such stupidities as mining Nicaraguan ports. But the contras are fighting for an ideal, and the U.S., after arming, training and encouraging them, cannot suddenly abandon them to their fates...
...many Senators and Representatives are determined to go further and cut off all U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan contras, crippling if not ending the guerrilla war they are waging inside Nicaragua. There the fighting intensified last week, with the contras launching coordinated attacks from across the Honduran border in the north and along the swampy Costa Rican border to the south. Fighting was especially fierce at the southern town of San Juan del Norte, where the rebels were hoping to establish a provisional government. Contra commanders told TIME that they received American sea support for their operations at San Juan...
Unfortunately, Reagan's policy toward Nicaragua is also anything but a model of clarity. From the start, U.S. backing of the contras has been marked by ambiguities as to purpose, scope and methods. The CIA began secret arming and training of Nicaraguan exiles in Honduras under the authority of National Security Decision Directive 17, signed by Reagan in December 1981. NSDD 17 specified the purpose as interdicting the flow of arms from Nicaragua to the Communist-led rebels in El Salvador. Hit-and-run raids by the contras could not accomplish that, however, and so, by April 1982, the goal...