Word: nicaraguan
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This decline of respect has been evident in popular culture: the image of journalism has shifted in movies from the diligent crusading in All the President's Men to the reckless destruction of people's lives in Absence of Malice, the corrupting collaboration with Nicaraguan revolutionaries in Under Fire and the intrusive buffoonery in The Right Stuff...
Sending Cuban troops home is not progress but retrogression in the struggle of the Nicaraguan people...
...Sandinistas have announced that 1,000 Cuban advisers have left Nicaragua and that others will leave if El Salvador and Honduras expel their U.S. advisers. The government has also let it be known that leftist Salvadoran rebels are no longer welcome on Nicaraguan soil, forcing them to find another haven. In addition, the Sandinistas have hinted that elections will be held in 1985, and have made overtures to leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the country's embattled business community to sit down and discuss their differences...
...Nicaraguan moves have met with intense skepticism at the White House. Administration officials are inclined to believe that the reforms are largely cosmetic, aimed at fending off an invasion without achieving any genuine change. Said State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg: "We see no real evidence that the Sandinistas have changed their basic philosophy toward human rights and expression of views by opposition groups...
...negotiated settlement remains only a distant possibility. In the meantime, the Reagan Administration remains committed to a strategy of countering Nicaraguan-sponsored insurgency with covert CIA support for anti-Sandinista rebels. That policy has drawn increasing attacks on Capitol Hill from legislators who believe the real aim is to destabilize and, if possible, overthrow the Nicaraguan regime. Led by Massachusetts Democrat Edward Boland, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, opponents in the House tried to block money for further covert aid to the rebels. A Senate bill, however, retained funding for continued covert support. After a compromise reached last week...