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...They are vastly different from the I statements they were making some six months ago," said Secretary of State George Shultz. He was talking about the conciliatory tone of recent pronouncements by the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua. But perhaps more important, the same thing could be said about Shultz's own comments last week. When asked at a press conference about the new Sandinista approach, the Secretary said, "I welcome that. Of course, what we want is for a reality to be put behind the rhetoric. So naturally we want to probe and find out what is there...
...context is that all of these measures are being offered in a country that right now is really at war--a country that is building and digging trenches, a country that in every town I went to in the border area of Honduras and Nicaragua you see Sandinista trucks driving into the center of town and literally handing out rifles to everyone in the town The measures they have been announcing are really not very new. They have been saying for several years now that in 1985 they would have elections. They now have said that on February...
White: I think that there is, leane Kirk patrick notwithstanding, room for pluralistic development inside Nicaragua because no matter how harshly you judge Nicaragua. It is not a major offender against human rights There's nobody afraid to stand up and talk about how bad the Sandinistas are I would think that, just as in Mexico, you might evolve a Sandinista party, with various wings and tendencies within it You have this pluralism panning out, and then it develops along its own way. I don't see any evidence to suggest that the Sandinistas are wedded to the idea...
LETS SAY YOU are a leader of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. After four years of authoritarian rule following the overthrow of dictator Anastasio Somoza, you recognize that you are losing support among the left-leaning democracies and are wasting valuable resources funding an enormous fighting machine to oppose the U.S. backed counter-revolutionaries operating from Honduras. So you make some significant conciliatory gestures to your critics. For example, you ask more than 2000 Cuban civilians and military advisors to return home, you lift censorship controls on the press; you engage in dialogue with the opposition parties; you plan elections...
...negotiated settlement remains only a distant possibility. In the meantime, the Reagan Administration remains committed to a strategy of countering Nicaraguan-sponsored insurgency with covert CIA support for anti-Sandinista rebels. That policy has drawn increasing attacks on Capitol Hill from legislators who believe the real aim is to destabilize and, if possible, overthrow the Nicaraguan regime. Led by Massachusetts Democrat Edward Boland, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, opponents in the House tried to block money for further covert aid to the rebels. A Senate bill, however, retained funding for continued covert support. After a compromise reached last week...