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 ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER, Publisher 1935.1961 DONALD AIT Ni .A.NIZfiN. , Exec. .,Y, ueneral
nor Marko 8er Sr. ORVIL E. DRYFOOS, Publisher 1961.1963 r VP twg
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JOHN M. O'BRIEN, VP Controller
ELISE J. ROBS. VP, Syatema
The Worst-Kept Secret War
When asked the other day if he could confirm a
,report in The Times that the C.I.A. is mobilizing a
secret war against Nicaragua, President Reagan re-
plied: "No, and I don't think The New York Times
can." But the growing evidence of American in-
volvement can't be shrugged off so blandly. There's
nothing secret any more about the training of exile
armies in Florida and the recurrent. border raids
into. Nicaragua by insurgents. claiming C.I.A. help;
all this has been widely reportedfor months.
Whatever American agen-ts:,may be doing to
help Honduras prevent the use, of its territory for
arms smuggling. to El Salvador,. it seems beyond
doubt that they are also engaged in some direct ac-
tions in Nicaragua. The manifest purpose is to
to confirm the darkest fears of suspicious adver-
saries and make them more truculent, not accom-
modating.
It is perfectly true that an acceptable doctrine of
non-intervention has to be respected by all parties. If
it were proven that Nicaragua is indeed violating the
territory of Honduras to funnel weapons to El Salva-
dor, some reprisal in kind might be justifiable.
But the evidence suggests that it is Nicaraguan
territory, not Honduran, that is being systematically
violated.
A final justification for covert warfare might be
a clear showing that truly vital American interests
are at risk, and beyond the reach of diplomacy., No
such showing has been made, either to the American.
threaten a frontal assault on the leftist Sandinist re- people or to our Latin friends. To the contrary,
gime. Undeniably;. some of the leaders: of the insur-
gent force are Nicaraguans associated with the dis-
credited Somoza dictatorship..
These are, to.begin with, illegal activities.. The
Neutrality Act-expressly forbids-the raising of se-
cret armies to unseat a regime that the United
States recognizes as lawful. Flouting. that law is no
way to rally the hemisphere against meddling by
Cuba and Nicaragua in other nations' conflicts. .
Even if these secret armies were never meant to
be used in a big way, they are a dangerous instru-
ment of diplomacy. Give people- with a, political
grudge a gun and they maneuver to fire it. If they do,
they. are impossible to disown. Even if they don't,
they are extremely difficult to disband.
If the idea here was to use the -threat of insur-
gency to win bargaining concessions from Nicara-
gua, the idea is bound to misfire. -Such threats tend
sinki group who can
November 1981. Ass
zhek Romaszewski l "
I am that woman,
to find. But it is diffic
I and our Helsinki co
to save Mr. Romaszei
I met Mr. Romasze
different occasions in
1979, before the creat
and again in 1981, at
man in his late 40's,
that produced a
in Madrid in Novem
When Solidarity
during its brief,
National Commissi
always on Prot
'To the Editor:
In a Nov. 27 news
heading "Recession
rope Forces Reappra
we read: "Socialism
no better able to
'it remarkable that
stationed in Warsa
standing of a socialist
to produce: because
system is based on p1
mands. But for the di
help from the West,
cialist economies wo
fested itself many yea
bankrupt.. Yugoslavia
come so. Hungary,
and East Germany m
Death row inmates call lethal injection "the ulti- fessed concern over 'detail in capital cases and de,
mate high." Instead of suffering electric shock and spite three clear dissents, ignored that failure.
burns or gagging on poison gas,. the victim simply To a lot of people, the death penalty presents a
drifts off in a trance. That is how the state of Texas contradiction. They may favor it in the abstract, o;
executed Charles Brooks, a murderer, - and so when they talk to poll-takers. But the brutal reality
marked another advance in the technology of death. repels most people close enough to carry.. it . out.
._
But the new method hardly obscures the under- Judges, corrections officials and legislators don't
lying issue: the morality of state-sanctioned killing. like. to think of themselves as killers. Neither do
Over the centuries, civilized governments have tried most citizens. So'they look for ways to purify an in-
to limit and reject it. In the United States, execution decent duty. Society favored the electric chair and
ceased altogether by the 1960'x. the gas chamber as cleaner and more dependable
Its resurgence reflects the thirst of a frustrated than the noose. Lethal injection is yet another way to
public for vengeance against criminals. Some mem- make the task look humane.
bers of a Texas college fraternity actually showed The result, however, is the same. That is why-
'up at- the prison to cheer Mr. Brooks's execution. the American Medical Association oppose, partici-
Politicians are swept along by the emotional tide de- pation by physicians in lethal drug executions. In
spite their better judgment. New York's Governor- Idaho, the Legislature had to re-authorize-the firing
elect Mario Cuomo, who won election despite mor- squad when no doctors would agree to perform le-
ally based opposition to the death penalty, is a nota- thal injections. No such inhibition troubled the.
ble exception Texas prison doctor, who drew a wondrously thin
The fever now th pisareeddh Fildle in 6/0a~td8ai 4'>~:IRS B6t~@~itOB1i ~6 1fl5~Id
Court. On Monday a majority of-the justices turned helped with preparations but left it to medical tech-
aside Mr.. Brooks's final appeals in away that sug- nicians to administer the lethal doses.
President Betancur of Colombia, an independent-
minded conservative, last week risked Mr. Rea-
gan's displeasure by appealing for negotiations with
both Nicaragua and Cuba.
That was a foretaste of how Latin America _
would react to unilateral United States interven.
lions. Mr. Reagan, by way of polite reply, expressed
his wish to see "the withdrawal of all - I repeat all
-foreign military advisers in Central America."
Nicaragua contends that it is prepared to negoti-
ate. A proper response would find Washington test-
ing that claim, documenting its charges of Nicara-
gua's interference in other countries and persuading
other Latin nations to join in condemning the import
of Communist arms. The improper response is to
deny the undeniable, in the false hope that the C.I.A.
hand can somehow be hidden. That illusion should
have died at the Bay of Pigs.
a year or two.
The Soviet Union
standard of living n
the fact that it produi
few other raw mate
To the Editor:
In his Nov. 10 letter,
a Scenario for `China
Satire for having refe
dona as a Stalinist (c
But Mao was indeed a
He was a strict Stal
phasic on heavy indu.,
iron and steel, at. the E
culture. In the Great
Mao's economic-devel
child, steel production
percent, from 5.3 millio
tons, in one year (1957
be the "key link" of the
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more likely that the seizures may lm
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f seizures Peterson tok'
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lowed by several localized seizures in last week. ~~mThnothinld not do perma- clot, that's a disaster:' Secretary
fficials He emphasized that such changes Shultzf. who a
versity of the left leg. tiresin tests provided bad dream we've all had," he said.
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some reassurance that develCiPmenl~
age or said a briefings on .Clark's condi-
ned until It a.m. EST conducting Clark's case in the glare through sever
inconscio
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ngon.. - another opponent, said the proposed..: 7-The paramount Nicaraguan Op- victed murderer
booking sport circuses, after restrictions were tailored to benefit position group, which. has claimed lay strapped to a stretcher early this the nation
t the measure the Capital' :Centre, which "would numerous commando raids against - terecnlmthessmal ldeath chamberein the death ~
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more than a can understand designed to attract rival anti-Sandi-
___taL a> ID... and create a more -....91 with whom he earlier had shared cult Court
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eading a highly By voice vote, the Senate ~rha palatable public image. arked vows, u ing the
nst efforts to the restrictive language, which had The announcement in a ried, and said, finally, "Be strong."
policies of the been contained in the District's $and public relations debut for the group, "It was as if he was waiting fora the, subs
bill.-for 198' and change, waiting for something to hit Court ref]
the Nicaraguan Democratic Force-
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rater, schedule ping on Friday. virtually, would have prevented the
ess and public around Miami, it
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gported by the U.S. Central Intelli-
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once Agency.
Bredemeier
,t staff Wrttet
go Sharon Jack
Drug Stores phar-
ed the D.C. Lot-
illion-dollar prize
walked away the
83 Oldsmobile in a
ze contest for lot-
es agents.
tit yesterday Peo-
said no: They will
ray sable brown ve
locks But the group ,has always had
hicle with power windows>- problems, particularly among"
and seats, and an AM-FiVI cos- other 'groups of Nicaraguan exiles
sotto radio.
Jackson, the officials said; will who have left the country since the
get. a consolation prize-a $100 o itsin embers were supporters of
check. former dictator Anastasio Somoza or
Jackson had hoped to use the members of his National Guard. 1974
new.: ` car. to replace ale. on i The Reagan administration, ac
Chrysler with 86,000 mills on it cording to U.S. officials, while openly
-
d th
e opposing the leftist Sandinista gov
that she had just purchase
I,ght before the lottery drawing. ernment, has recognized the unpop-
But P. ople5 corporate- secretary, ularity of the former Somoza soldiers
James?-Schwarz said yesterday among most Nicaraguans-even
tisfied with
dis
sa
See PRIZE, A10, Col. i ,, those who now are
Fourth of .a series
By Fred Barbash
Washington Post Staff Writer
The. internment of 120,000 Jap?-
anese Americans during World=
War II was part of an unprece-
dented expansion of domestic mil-
itary authority on the West Coast
of the United States, beginning
even before the bombing of Pearl
Harbor that came close to martial
docume
militar3
Japane
Coast.
As
U.S. fc
law. t'
The Commission on Wartime overri
Relocation and Internment of Ci- Justic
vilians, now- considering compen- argue
sation for those wi}o were: in- Japar
terned, has gathered extensive =, the
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