Word: nicaraguan
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...drug kingpin? No, the fugitive was Oliver North, whose disdain for congressional investigators is legendary. This time a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee is demanding to see North's diaries, which may mention drug dealers who were mixed up with the Nicaraguan contras. In spite of the subpoena, North refused to surrender: he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination...
...group of Vietnam veterans is sending a convoy of 50 trucks down to Nicaragua to give "real humanitarian aid to the people of Nicaragua." The efforts by these Vietnam veterans to aid the Nicaraguan people strike at the heart of Reagan administration policy in that region by questioning whether it seeks to bring about freedom or has some other, less benevolent purpose. The answer may be that U.S. policy objectives in Central America are no different from what some contend they were in Vietnam...
...that confounds the Reagan Administration in Panama and elsewhere in Central America: Is the U.S. pursuing a logical course to achieve concrete results, or is it firing wildly at uncertain targets? Drug trafficking has replaced Communism as the Administration's overriding policy concern, compounding earlier American inconsistency on the Nicaraguan contras. In switching targets, the U.S. has employed heavy-handed tactics that have failed to anticipate consequences. As a result, Washington has angered some of its closest regional allies and unleashed strong anti-American sentiments. "Things are a mess now," concedes a State Department official. "We're just reacting...
Such a move would be devastating for the small companies that have been importing $1.4 million worth of the coffee annually. Says Rink Dickinson, president of Boston-based Equal Exchange, which sells Nicaraguan coffee under its Cafe Nica label: "We feel the rug has been arbitrarily pulled out from under us." Sympathetic Congressmen are urging the Administration to drop the idea...
...dissolves, the state is in serious trouble. No country sits by quietly while its population riots, and there's no reason to demand that Israel do so. The Parisian police control their "manifestations," the United States put down riots in Newark, Watts, and Detroit in the sixties, and the Nicaraguan government chased the contras into Honduras. If you believe that Israel should exist as a state, you cannot deny its right to act like a state. There is no reason to believe that a Palestinian state would not similarly handle internal opposition. Palestinians have never shied away from violence...