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Nicaraguan aggression before the Security Council.” But the contradiction
is only apparent; in the style of a legal advocate, Moore carefully
formulates his statement so as to evade the issue while appearing to
address it. What is at issue is not rhetorical allegations but rather a
formal charge of armed attack, invoking the right of self-defense, and an
appeal to the Security Council to act. Moore also conveniently omits the
words requiring report of measures taken to the Security Council, in
citing Article 51 in his “Legal issues.”
11. See my “Rule of Force in International Affairs,” reprinted in For Reasons
of State from the Yale Law Journal (June, 1971), and “Law and
Imperialism.”
12. NYT, April 13, 1984; Julius Lobel (Professor, Pittsburgh School of Law),
Memorandum of The National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee on
the United States, Nicaragua and the World Court, April 15, 1985.
13. Anthony Lewis, NYT, May 28, 1984, citing an address by Moynihan at
the Syracuse Law School.
14. LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions, 41, 48, 53, 59; Connell-Smith, Inter-
American System, 51-2; Selser, Sandino, 28.
15. Hufbauer and Schott, Economic Sanctions Reconsidered, 674f.
16. Millett, Guardians of the Dynasty, 25-6. For the full text, see Selser,
Sandino, 28-30.
17. Booth, End and Beginning, 24, 50; Millett, Guardians, 139, 226. On
National Guard atrocities, see Booth, 119f.
18. “Interview of the President by the New York Times, March 28, 1984,”
released by the White House, March 29.
19. News Conference; NYT, Feb. 22, 1985.
20. Bill Keller, NYT, Feb. 28, 1985.
21. Adam Pertman, BG, Aug. 29, 1985.
22. Joel Brinkley, NYT, March 30, 1985.
23. CSM, April 23,1985; NYT, Nov. 1, 1984; WP, Nov. 29, 1984; LAT,
March 3, 1985.
24. Interview with Claudia Dreifus, Progressive, August 1985.
25. Moore, “Legal issues”; see chapter 2, note 70, for his explanation of the