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Contra Aid (1988-08-24)
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A ceasefire had been in effect in Nicaragua since April, but talks had broken down. What should the United States be doing? According to Mr. Roett, "The Nicaraguan situation needs to be looked at in the context of 1988-1989, not in the context of President Reagan's inauguration, when he himself took on the Contras as a very personal cause. He is finished; they, too, will soon be finished." To Mrs. Purcell, "When you set up a negotiating process between one side that is heavily armed by the Soviets and the other side that really doesn't even have food and boots, it is a very unequal negotiation." Mr. Buckley, taking issue with Mr. Roett, asserts that "There is no such thing as a nice clinically, hygienically, hermetically sealed Soviet satellite in Central America." Heat but also light on this subject of protracted American consideration.
Directors & creators
Southern Educational Communications Association
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, William F. Buckley Jr., Riordan Roett, Susan Kaufman Purcell, Ronald Reagan, Contras, Nicaragua, Soviet Union, Central America, United States foreign policy, Nicaraguan Revolution, Sandinistas, Cold War, international relations, ceasefire agreements
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