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and El Salvador, and much relevant discussion, see Herman and
Brodhead, Demonstration Elections.
84. Jonathan Steele, London Review of Books, April 4, 1985; Timothy
Garton Ash, Spectator (London), March 31, 1984.
85. Ash, New York Review, Nov. 22, 1984.
86. Washington Post correspondent Christopher Dickey, in Robert Leiken,
ed., Central America: Anatomy of Conflict (Pergamon, 1984).
87. TNCW, 39-42, 393-4; Bonner, Weakness and Deceit, 255f.; also I. M.
Destler in Leiken, Central America. On the White Paper, see James
Petras, Nation, March 28, 1981; Jonathan Kwitny, WSJ, June 8, 1981;
Robert Kaiser, WP, June 9, 1981.
88. Newsday, April 19, 1984; Washington Post, Feb. 21, 1983; Bonner,
Weakness and Deceit, 263f., 232.
89. Background Paper: Nicaragua’s Military Build-Up and Support for
Central-American Subversion, Dept. of State and DOD, July 18, 1984;
NYT, June 30, 1984.
90. NYT, March 17, 1985.
91. E.g., Moore, “Legal Issues,” who relies on it as his primary source.
92. NYT, May 19, 1985.
93. Joel Brinkley, NYT, Aug. 10, 1985.
94. PEHR, I; Herman, Real Terror Network; TNCW, 47-55.
95. Arthur Schlesinger, A Thousand Days (Houghton Mifflin, 1965; Fawcett
reprinting, 1967), 713-4; Joseph Smith, Portrait of a Cold Warrior
(Putnam, 1976), 382. Thomas McCann, An American Company
(Crown, 1976), 168-9; he withdrew the suggestion because of fears that
El Salvador might retaliate against his company and when he discovered
that El Salvador was getting its PR advice from a former high-ranking
official of the US Defense Department, with whom he did not want to get
into “a game of chess” with unforeseeable consequences.
96. Cf. William LeoGrande, World Policy Journal, Winter, 1984; the
desperation of defenders of the government’s case is revealed by Moore’s
reference (“Legal Issues”) to the “superb job” of the vacuous document in
demonstrating Cuban-Nicaraguan instigation of violence and terrorism.