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Even with U.S. assistance, however, the rebels are facing a 60,000-strong Nicaraguan army, equipped with as many as 38 Soviet helicopters. Few observers think the rebels can overthrow the Sandinistas, and it remains uncertain whether they can even slow Ortega's drive to consolidate one-party rule. In the short run, at least, U.S. support for the contras has had the opposite effect: the day after the House vote, the Sandinistas shut down La Prensa, Nicaragua's leading independent newspaper and hinted at new restrictions on opposition political parties...
...enjoys being unpredictable. "He's not afraid to take a tough vote," says Chafee. Bradley angered some Democrats this spring by voting in favor of aid to the contra guerrillas who are trying to overthrow the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, he has come to believe that the Sandinistas are intent on exporting revolution in Central America. "I want to buy time for the fragile democracies down there," he says...
...sure-bet economic benefits that Reagan trumpets as the reasons behind his funding a war there. The causus belli is the current government of Nicaragua which Reagan wants to overthrow. Communist revolutionaries, the Nicaraguan leaders have tied themselves closely with the Soviet Union. President Reagan fears that with another Soviet backed country very close to the American border, that other being Cuba, the safety of the United States is compromised...
...window. In many minds, freedom is a license to indulge. If the old constraints of religion and manners have given way, Americans unequipped with a set of inhibitions will begin to dismantle the system for their own amusement. But one rarely hears a revolutionary cry these days to overthrow the Republic. There are rhythms in these matters. Nineteen years ago, the New York Review of Books published on its cover a diagram, with instructions, of how to make a Molotov cocktail--to be hurled, obviously, in the direction of the ruling class. Thirty-one years ago, the columnist Murray Kempton...
Elliott Abrams '69 argued that there is no alternative to supporting the Nicaraguan Contras in their fight to overthrow the Sandinista government "unless you suggest that it's okay to have a communist country in Central America subverting its neighbors...