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LETS SAY YOU are a leader of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. After four years of authoritarian rule following the overthrow of dictator Anastasio Somoza, you recognize that you are losing support among the left-leaning democracies and are wasting valuable resources funding an enormous fighting machine to oppose the U.S. backed counter-revolutionaries operating from Honduras. So you make some significant conciliatory gestures to your critics. For example, you ask more than 2000 Cuban civilians and military advisors to return home, you lift censorship controls on the press; you engage in dialogue with the opposition parties; you plan elections...
...Marxist government, is the U.S. trying merely to harass the Sandinistas or to topple their government? Whatever the objective, a new CIA assessment provided to congressional oversight committees argues that the 10,000 to 12,000 U.S.-backed contras simply lack the training, financing and political support required to overthrow the Sandinistas. The secret report, details of which emerged last week, noted that the guerrillas would be thwarted by Nicaragua's superior army and militia, which total some 100,000 troops...
...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, the contras will receive...
...days after Bishop had been placed under house arrest, the letter appears to be an attempt to save Bishop. "Everything that happened was for us a surprise," wrote Castro. "Even explaining the events to our people will not be easy." With haunting prescience, he predicts that Bishop's overthrow will bring disaster to Grenada. Wrote Castro: "In my opinion, the divisions and problems that have emerged will result in considerable damage to the image of the Grenadian revolution, as much within as outside the country." -By Susan Tifft. Reported...
...Kennedy would ask for nearly 1,000 new ICBMS for the American nuclear arsenal, which eventually triggered what has become the greatest arms race in history. He acquiesced in the overthrow of the Diem government in South Viet Nam in 1963. And he ordered 16,000 American troops into that country...