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...cross-border arms shipments "fell off to nothing" after the failure of the Salvadoran guerrillas' "final offensive" in the spring of 1981. Now, he says, he believes the Administration has "systematically misrepresented Nicaraguan involvement in the supply of arms to Salvadoran guerrillas to justify its efforts to overthrow the Nicaraguan government." Secretary of State George Shultz says of MacMichael, "He must be living in some other world...
...phrasing was, De la Madrid's American hosts had little trouble getting his meaning. The reference to "rules of international law" was implicit criticism of the CIA-organized mining of Nicaraguan harbors. "Nonintervention" and "self-determination" referred to U.S. support for the contra guerrillas who are trying to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. "Peaceful solutions" was a slap at the U.S. military buildup in Central America. "Equality of states before the law" and "international cooperation" were allusions to the U.S. economic squeeze on Nicaragua...
...deal with a stagnant economy, a foreign debt of $3.3 million and pressing social problems, such as unemployment and lack of adequate housing and medical care. To continue the return to civilian rule, he will gently have to nudge the military out of politics but without provoking his own overthrow. Said Ardito Barletta last week: "One must treat the military well so that the military will treat the government well." He might soon be saying the same thing about Panamanian voters...
Alfonsin has already proven himself more than worthy of unfailing United States aid. He has placed the army under civilian authority and is reducing the size of the armed forces. He has also abandoned the American tactic of supporting secret wars to overthrow existing Latin American governments, and has promised to peacefully resolve a potentially fractious conflict with Chile over the Beagle Channel...
...Nicaraguans lament the 1979 overthrow of Anastasio Somoza Debayle and his right-wing dictatorship, of course, but many of the peasants of Nueva Segovia oppose the Sandinistas strongly enough to support the contra cause at great risk. Those who are caught aiding the guerrillas are often killed by the Sandinistas. The contras can be equally brutal when they uncover Sandinista informers or seize enemy troops. "If we capture them in a fight and they have no more ammunition, then they must die," said a subcomandante known as Pelón. "That shows they were trying to kill us and gave...