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...case, there is no indication that the Administration has any intention of changing its policy toward Nicaragua unless Congress forces it to do so. That policy was spelled out in a secret document summarizing decisions reached by President Reagan and his foreign policy advisers a year ago and was published last week by the New York Times. The document identified the goal of U.S. policy in Central America as to prevent "proliferation of Cuba-model states." While it made no mention of military activity against Nicaragua, it defined U.S. strategy as "increasing the pressure on Nicaragua and Cuba to increase...
...similar spirit moved Israeli forces to invade Lebanon with many grand ambitions. But "nine months later," writes Eban, "not one of these objectives has been achieved." Eban takes care, however, to criticize Begin no more pointedly than the commission itself did. "The report is a national, not a partisan, document," he told TIME last week. "In fact, the Begin government deserves some credit for appointing the commission and accepting its main conclusions...
...Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. will receive an anxiously awaited item in this week's post-Easter mail: the final revision of a proposed pastoral letter on nuclear arms. The controversial 140-page document accommodates some criticisms from conservatives in the U.S. and Catholics abroad, but it remains a sweeping critique of U.S. nuclear-deterrence strategy at the very time when President Reagan is caught up in a tense international struggle over the issue. Moreover, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, chairman of the drafting committee, informed fellow bishops in a confidential memo two weeks ago that he discussed...
...thrust of the document remains its challenge to many central elements of the U.S. policy of relying on an arsenal of nuclear weapons to deter the Soviet Union from starting a war. The panel still accepts John Paul's view that deterrence is "morally acceptable" if it is part of a process leading to disarmament. But the committee clearly remains deeply distressed by the basic concept of deterrence: U.S. willingness to counterattack by launching nuclear missiles. Since such an assault would be bound to kill countless civilians near military targets, it might well conflict with the tenets...
...State Department's 1982 Human Rights Report is a flawed and inconsistent document. In the recently released report, entitled Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1982, the Administration conveniently misrepresents or disregards blatant human rights violations in those countries deemed "friendly" to the United States, such as Guatemala. Argentina, El Salvador, Chile, the Phillipines, and South Korea, while characteristically focusing on the human rights abuses committed in the U.S.S.R. and Soviet bloc countries...