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What is more, Nicaragua is willing to use its force, as it illustrated unmistakably last week during a skirmish in the remote swamplands of eastern Honduras. Some 75 members of the revolutionary army of Nicaragua collided with roughly equal numbers of Miskito Indians, members of a Nicaraguan tribe that has rebelled against their country's Marxist-dominated Sandinista government. When the shooting stopped at least eight Indians were dead, according to sketchy local reports, and the Honduran government was enraged at a clear violation of its borders by the Sandinista forces. The ill-equipped Honduran army went on full...
...Reagan last year overrode legislative machinery that Congress had designed specifically to give itself permanent control of the budget process. For the moment at least, dazed lawmakers will have to accept, reject or amend presidential proposals rather than enact their own. The President's triumph was the latest skirmish in a seesaw struggle over spending that has gone on since the founding days of the Republic, even though Article I of the Constitution theoretically gives Congress primary power over the federal purse. The first Congresses appropriated lump sums that Presidents George Washington and John Adams and their Cabinets could...
...enough to focus attention for a few months on the nation, and enough to check our government's action to some extent. But it was a very few months, and the popular indignation never transcended the case of El Salvador. Once again the left had failed, won a skirmish or two but resoundingly lost...
While Haig was moving toward a truce with Allen and the White House, the Secretary of State inadvertently opened a new skirmish with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, with whom he has clashed before. Haig was appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to explain the Administration's $180 billion plan to upgrade the U.S. nuclear arsenal. He remarked that NATO contingency plans include the option "to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes" to deter a massive conventional-force Soviet thrust into Europe. Haig did not say where this warning shot would be detonated. His point, mainly lost...
Here are former Secretary of Defense John S. McNamara (thank you for that skirmish in Southeast Asia), former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger '50 (thank you for those secret bombings in Cambodia and that stable dictator in Persia) and former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown supporting the AWACs sale. As Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) pointed out in the Senate debate last week, Brown had written a letter to Congress on May 9, 1978--at the time of the debate over the sale of F-15 fighter planes--which stated that F-15s would "not be equipped with...