Word: interdicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stronger enforcement. Reagan wants to step up efforts by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the military and domestic law-enforcement agencies to prosecute drug traffickers and interdict supplies. Despite much heralded busts, like one last week in Pennsylvania that broke up a drug ring charged with smuggling more than seven tons of cocaine into the U.S., the DEA has only about 2,500 agents, the same number as in 1975. It remains unclear whether Reagan plans to send them substantial reinforcements...
...Using Nicaragua as a base, the Soviets and Cubans can become the dominant power in the crucial corridor between North and South America. Established there, they will be in a position to threaten the Panama Canal, interdict our vital Caribbean sea lanes, and, ultimately, move against Mexico...
...modified to use the standoff antiship missile that first made its mark during the Falklands war. With a range of up to 1,000 miles, the Mirages are also capable of venturing deeper into the gulf than aircraft used by the Iraqis in the past. Iraq's aim: to interdict oil shipments from the Iranian oil port at Kharg Island, thus pressing Tehran to bring the gulf war to a negotiated...
...would do if his proposed negotiations with the Sandinistas should fail and Nicaragua continued to interfere in the affairs of its neighbors, Mondale gave a startling answer that kept him and his aides backpedaling furiously for much of the week. The candidate first said he would "continue to interdict" and would apply pressure through European allies and the Contadora countries (Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela), measures that he had previously mentioned...
...troops from the region, and he would simply cu off U.S. military aid to El Salvador unti all death-squad activity ceased. Mondale would link U.S. aid to El Salvador to progress on land reform and an end to the death squads. He would continue the U.S. efforts to interdict the flow of arms from Nicaragua to the Salvadoran rebels, but unlike President Reagan, he would not back the contras against the Nicaraguan regime. Mondale would leave troops in Honduras while he attempted to negotiate the withdrawal of some 2,000 Cuban soldiers from Nicaragua. He would, however, "substantially reduce...