Editorials / With Ron after Gorbo / A Message form Miranda
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
A MESSAGE FROM MIRANDA If Congressman Henry Hyde was mad before, imagine his anger now. He was exasperated over Congress's passage of an arrantly unconstitutional legislative sausage that would...
...and Congressman Hyde believes that it is unwholesome to American security for the Sandinistas to transform Nicaragua into another Cuba—not a Cuba walled in by inhospitable seas, but a Cubabordered by poorly defended nations vulnerable to Nicaragua's agents and armies...
...Though bankrupt, Communist Nicaragua has been supplying military equipment to Communist insurgents in El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Guatemala...
...Some years ago, when Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was our ambassador to the United Nations he spoke 8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FEBRUARY 1988...
...While our Congress conjures with ever more legislation to render our government inconsequential outside the borders of this great Republic, Nicaragua is actively projecting force among our neighbors...
...All of this is, of course, in contravention of the Arias regional peace accord signed by the Sandinistas last August...
...Now it has been divulged that the Sandinistas plan a 600,000-man army in sleepy Central America...
...Humberto Ortega Saavedra himself, has confirmed it...
...The Nicaraguan minister of defense, Mr...
...He was exasperated over Congress's passage of an arrantly unconstitutional legislative sausage that would attempt to prohibit the President from encouraging other countries to assist the contras in their war against the Sandinistas...
Vol. 21 • February 1988 • No. 2
