Word: sandinistas
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...Said he is endorsing a variety of measures introduced in Congress this winter to put pressure on the racist white-minority regime, and called on President Reagan to bring the same pressure to bear on South Africa as he has on the Sandinista Regime in Nicaragua. Reagan has said explicitly that he wants to "remove" the Marxist-led regime in Nicaragua, but not the same of South Africa, "which is playing the game by two sets of rules...
...Reagan Administration's intervention in Nicaragua is an "evil war" impeding the Sandinista government's humanitarian efforts for reform, a member of the country's legislative assembly last night told a 150-person audience at the Law School...
...trying to make a revolution." Hooker said of the left-wing Sandinista government that in 1979 overthrew the right-wing U.S. backed Somoza clan, adding that he fears the Reagan Administration's intervention will prevent the revolution's success...
Despite intervention from abroad, the Sandinista government is doing all it can to improve the quality of life of all Nicaraguans. Hooker said. He cited the country's success in cutting illiteracy from 60 percent to 12 percent...
Judged by the customary State of the Union standard, Reagan gave relatively short shrift to foreign policy. His most interesting assertion was to link U.S. support of anti-Soviet guerrillas in Afghanistan and the anti-Sandinista contras in Nicaragua with the right of any nation to protect itself from foreign aggression. "Support for freedom fighters is self-defense," he said, and "totally consistent" with the charters of the Organization of American States and the United Nations. The President seemed to be building a legal case for Washington's continued use of covert--and maybe even overt--aid in conflicts that...