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Nicaragua's Sandinista government may have been trying to send an important signal to someone last week. The question was, to whom, and what did it mean? In carefully worded conversations, some officials in Managua, the capital, let it be known that they were considering the temporary suspension of the country's 15-month-old military draft. The move, coming only a week after imposition of a U.S. trade embargo against Nicaragua, was interpreted by some as a potential peace offering from the Sandinistas to a hostile Reagan Administration. Others preferred to see it as a propaganda ploy, aimed...
Reagan's advisers did what they could to distract attention from Bitburg. Shortly after the President's arrival in Bonn, they announced an embargo on trade between the U.S. and the Marxist Sandinista regime of Nicaragua. They also quietly suggested that Kohl was mainly responsible for the Bitburg debacle, even as they publicly insisted that there had been no damage to the close relationship between the two leaders and their countries...
With that, relations between the U.S. and the Sandinista government sank to a new low. The change came at the stroke of a presidential pen, under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The law allows the President to impose sanctions without congressional approval on declaration of a "national emergency...
...series of frenetic compromises and seemingly contradictory floor votes that left even some veteran legislators bewildered, Congress last week handed Ronald Reagan a major foreign policy defeat. After the Senate passed a highly diluted measure providing humanitarian aid to anti-Sandinista Nicaraguans, the House considered three separate proposals offering various forms of assistance and ended up deciding to cut off aid altogether. The vote effectively scuttled U.S. support of the rebels seeking the overthrow of the Marxist-led Sandinista regime, at least for the time being. Said a "deeply disappointed" Reagan: "This kind of action damages national security and foreign...
...will provide assistance to the democratic resistance only for food, medicine, clothing, and other assistance for their surival and well-being -- and not for arms, ammunition and weapons of war." Previously, Reagan had wanted to be able to divert the money for arms if there was no progress in Sandinista-contra talks after 60 days...