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Dates: during 1983-1983
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That the Administration meant business had been demonstrated a few days earlier by an incident at sea 50 miles off the Pacific coast of Nicaragua. A U.S. guided-missile destroyer, the Lynde McCormick, drew to within a mile of the Aleksandr Ulyanov, a Soviet cargo ship bound for Nicaragua. Four days earlier, President Reagan had said at a press conference that the freighter was carrying helicopters to the Sandinistas. Over his ship's radio, the captain of the U.S. destroyer contacted the Soviet skipper and asked him what his cargo was and where he was headed. The Russian replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Things Are Moving | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

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