POLICY IN NICARAGUA 'EGREGIOUS FAILURE'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100210069-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: September 25, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PORTLAND OREGONIAN
25 September 1984
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years includi
ng aUl menca, Cited eorp~e. active duty in the Korean War, earned
town n niv rsity analysis as the source a doctorate in history at the University
_QL e casualty estimate. of Oregon and later was a visiting
IIland talk were professor at UO before becoming a
the World. Affairs Council of Oregon C ante ettce an yst in mid-19 1.
and the Eugene-based Council on Hu. from l be ~esearcner
man Rights for Latin America. with the SRI Inter
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consulting.
By PAUL MANLEY
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asion of Nicaragua would
0 U.S. casualties, including
ed 5,000 dead,. a former
telligence Agency ana s
an au ence at the North,
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work Nicaragua is not arming to attack its He said U.S. policy toward Nicara- "Ro~y,ath only U.S.
coac+ar>:
neighbors. Rather, remembering a his- gus "has been 'an egregious failure" that no foreign military tory that includes previous occupa- and urged the administration to "step tablished in Cntral America.
tions by U.S. forces, Nicaraguans are back" and allow the Central American chael said. MrWU
arming to defend themselves against a
U.S. attack, he said. He said many observers sates tit'
contrast to claims made by the U.S. support for anti-government rag
bets
Reagan administration, MacMichael i the Sandinista Star from ~rrskis?
said, "Human rights are far better ob- str t theengthened nupport" for r the
the , l-,atsri.
served in Nicaragua than elsewhere" strengthened
in Latin America gun government. ?.'
The vast majority of people se
Nonefescript policy' by the U.S.-financed financed rebels hew beat.,
"It is not going too far (to say) that civilians, M' th ad said. and s te.~ge _
it proportion o of f the dead bass ' `*
this administration. in pursuin
g
`Egregious failure' nations who are
anti-government rebels there +said
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the eyes of the rest of the world, he taking out three civilians (pkkref a: _
declared. random each day, and )Mina oe".."-
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"This is not the way I belt*
country carries out its diploanir ("
lations) with another country."_. _ _
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