Watch Out, Nicaragua!!
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effectively by fabricating an attack by Vietamese torpedo boats on two U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964. The Vietnamese "provocation" was used as an excuse for the first U.S. bombing raids on Hanoi.
The antiwar movement of the 1960s and '70s was able to expose the government's lies. Opposition to war by the American people, often maligned in the halls of Congress as the "Vietnam syndrome" remains strong today.
Many in U.S. governmental circles are skeptical of the success of the AUGUST 1985 (SOLDEROF IMPORTUNE Prun nor MuKay MACHO MOVIES PRISENTS SOLDIER or FORTUNE ra STARRING RONALD (LEROY) REAGAI IND A CAST OFOVER 6. MAYBE 7 RUBES working relationships within the hemisphere, but we will with a bunch of our NATO allies as well."
Nutting said that his views "echoed recommendations made by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the President and the Secretary of Defense."
For the time being, the administration seems to be carrying out a punitive war of attrition, while keeping in reserve the option of a major escalation. The Nicaraguan magazine Pensamiento Propio characterized U.S. tactics as the combination of aggressive military, ecoNational Assembly elected in 1984, and new elections that would enable the con tras to share power.
But the Sandinistas have ruled out negotiations with the major contra forces, which are dominated by the leftovers of Somoza's murderous National Guard.
"To talk with them means giving them a legitimacy that they do not have, recognizing them as a national political force" Minister of the Interior Tomas Borge said in April to a rally of members of the Sandinista Defense Committees.
Borge continued, "If we were to agree to a dialogue, it would mean agreeing to a return of the National Guard. It would be the beginning of a series of concessions that would ultimately lead to handing over the revolutionary power, the people's power."
The Sandinistas have felt compelled, however, to make some concessions. They sent back a contingent of Cuban technicians and military advisers, for example, and announced the cessation of aid to the Salvadoran revolutionaries.
But the Reagan administration wants a total rollback of the revolutionary process. Since the Sandinistas have refused to concede this, the United States continues its attempt to crush the revolution by military force. People in this country must respond by increased antiwar activities.
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Bahe Keediniihii is a member of the Big Mountain Sovereign Dineh Nation and the American Indian Movement.
The Dineh people (Navajo) are currently being forced to leave their native We hold small demonstrations with lands in Arizona. The following inter- arrests on the lands now, but these are view was conducted by Adam Wood on limited. There will be mass action next ing to resist.