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Critics in and outside Congress, however, charge that Reagan's real purpose is to overthrow the Sandinista regime by force, and that to do it he is willing to bankroll a reckless contra campaign that could end by dragging the U.S. into a Viet Nam-style war in Central America. The mining has deepened their skepticism, and shaken the faith of Reagan supporters in the Administration's repeated assurances that its prime aim in backing the contras is to stop the flow of Communist weapons into Nicaragua and from there into El Salvador. Said Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine...
Central America, it sometimes seems, is caught in a looking-glass war. Covert operations become overt, rebels in one country get aid so that rebels in another get squeezed. Liberals look at El Salvador and see Viet Nam, while conservatives look at the map and see pawns in a game of Great Power chess. In the din of charge and countercharge, moral and practical issues sometimes become tangled and blurred. Here are answers to some basic questions...
...endangering young men by agreeing with President Reagan's Central American policies. (Mondale counters that he would keep only a small military force in the region and would not support the contra rebels in Nicaragua.) A Hart television ad showed a slowly burning fuse and asked, "Remember Viet Nam...
...insistence in the post-Viet Nam era on gaining a stronger voice in foreign policy, Reagan argued, Congress has been long on demands and short on follow-through. Said he: "Congress has not yet developed capacities for coherent, responsible action needed to carry out the new foreign policy powers it has taken for itself." But his examples of this failure were curious, to say the least. Congress has significantly raised the level of aid to El Salvador over the past three years; last week the Senate passed a measure providing $62 million in emergency military funds for El Salvador with...
...good eye for the bizarre and plenty of material to use it on, including a strange dinner date with Henry Kissinger and several Secret Service agents. She spent a good part of the evening, she says, lecturing the patient Henry on the evils of the Viet Nam...