Word: settlements
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...policy: aid to El Salvador and to the contras. Cutting off assistance to El Salvador would invite the very catastrophe the U.S. is seeking to avoid: a democracy, however weak, becoming a potentially hostile leftist state. The contras must not be allowed to stand in the way of a settlement with Nicaragua, should one become possible, and American aid to their cause should not extend to such stupidities as mining Nicaraguan ports. But the contras are fighting for an ideal, and the U.S., after arming, training and encouraging them, cannot suddenly abandon them to their fates...
...intriguing and potentially inflammatory question of seaborne support arose after a contra assault column stormed into the settlement of San Juan del Norte, a remote Nicaraguan village of some 950 people that once served as a haven for the 17th century British pirate Henry Morgan. The attackers were part of the 4,000-member Revolutionary Democratic Alliance (A.R.D.E.), whose leader is Eden Pastora Gomez, a famed defector from the ranks of Nicaragua's Sandinista government. A.R.D.E.'S objective in seizing the settlement was twofold: to secure a toehold on the jungle fringes of Nicaraguan territory as the first...
...life, and I had just one ambition-to run it." In July Glucksman went to Peterson and told him that he wanted the top job for himself. Publicly denying that there was any friction between the two men, Peterson obligingly stepped aside and took with him a financial settlement estimated to be $15 million. Glucksman's nervy initiative was accepted by the Lehman board after the fact...
Beyond the fact that this move is a several of 40 years of American adherence to the World Court; beyond the fact that the Reagan administration is symbolically choosing military might over judicial settlement--we are learning that Reagan lives in a skewed amoral world...
While Haig sees his failure to deliver a settlement in the Falklands crisis as his Waterloo, others have pointed to the Lebanon crisis of June 1982 as his undoing. A book published in Israel has claimed, on the basis of secret diplomatic cables and transcripts of meetings, that Haig gave a "green light" to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. A number of Administration officials, speaking in the nonattributive way that Haig so often rails against in Caveat, have confirmed that charge. Haig has denied it, and here he presents his own version of his unavailing efforts to restrain Israel...