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Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. This was a sleepy backwater at State until the combative Elliott Abrams took over in 1985. Bush's selection will indicate whether he will keep pursuing military support for the Nicaraguan contras or try more diplomatic approaches to influence the Sandinista regime. Other big items: developing a strategy for fighting Latin drug lords, bolstering the feeble governments of El Salvador and Honduras, and figuring out how to deal with Panamanian strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega, who remains under indictment...
...this does not even begin to address the toll of a war that, by Managua's count, has taken 28,547 lives. The Nicaraguan government is asking the U.S. for $12.2 billion in reparations, 25% of which would cover what they call "moral damages." But who is going to assess damages against the Sandinistas for their own incompetence and chronic mismanagement? Since 1979 the Sandinistas' most salient achievements have been to consolidate their power, build a formidable military machine and suppress dissent. While the Sandinistas claim they could triumph in any election, Nicaraguans are voting otherwise with their feet. More...
...Nicaraguan refugees pouring into Honduras once could count on shelter in U.N.-sponsored refugee camps. Now newcomers who are caught are forcibly returned. Hondurans, with an unemployment rate of about 40%, insist they cannot accommodate this job-hungry tide of dispossessed Nicaraguans. With 12,000 armed contras sitting in Honduran base camps, some Hondurans feel the U.S. has dragged them into a war that they never chose to fight. Though Washington understandably becomes annoyed when officials in Honduras and other Central American countries privately implore the U.S. to act tough with the Sandinistas but offer little public support...
...friend-of-the-court brief filed in federal court, the department attacked independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh's theory that North and three codefendants obstructed Congressional oversight "through deceit and concealment" of their clandestine support of the Nicaraguan Contra rebels...
...Nicaraguan program, which is sponsored by a private aid foundation, the Overseas Development Fund, "aims to create economic opportunity for women," he said. The money donated will buy sewing machines and other materials to help the women of Las Herramades earn money to feed their families, Marx said...