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...latest adventure, Blacky confronts the Evil Empire, circa 1954. Stalin is dead, Georgi Malenkov sits unsurely as party chief, and the ruthless Lavrenti Beria, head of the KGB, plots his own ascension. The monolith is in transition, and the U.S. and Britain launch a secret commando raid to overthrow the Soviet- dominated government of Albania. The assault fails because of traitors in high places...
...decision making within the Sandinista directorate. We have lively discussions, and we decide by consensus. Our differences in the struggle to overthrow Somoza were tactical, but our objectives were the same. The fundamental contradictions outsiders try to find do not exist...
...overheated charges and countercharges threaten to obscure the real stakes, which are unquestionably high. Supporting the overthrow of a foreign government, even a detestable one, is a radical act that has brought the U.S. to grief before. In the case of Nicaragua, it risks prolonging civil war, justifying further internal repression by the regime and heightening tensions all through the region. Yet Western countries have felt compelled in the past to protect their national interests by interfering with foreign governments. Communist regimes do it almost by definition. Unquestionably, the Sandinistas in pursuit of Soviet-style Marxism pose a genuine threat...
...House of Representatives. In a vote that had been billed as a vital test of the Administration's interventionist foreign policy, the Democratic-controlled House rejected, at least for the moment, the President's request to give $100 million in aid to the Nicaraguan contras, who seek to overthrow the Sandinista regime. "The Administration deserved to have its nose bloodied on this," said Democratic Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin. "They handled this really badly." To a disappointed Reagan, the vote was "a dark day for freedom...
...approximately 300 who died in the seven months before the decree went into effect. The rising death toll only deepened the determination, particularly among young blacks, to continue the struggle for full enfranchisement. It also revived support for the African National Congress, the outlawed organization that seeks to overthrow the white minority government...