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112. Allman, Harper’s, March 1981, Unmanifest Destiny, (Doubleday,
1984), 77-8.
113. “Instances of the Use of United States Armed Forces abroad, 1798-
1945,” submitted by the State Department to demonstrate precedent for
US intervention without congressional authorization, with 200 entries
(Hearings, “Situation in Cuba,” Committee on Foreign Relations and
Committee on Armed Services, US Senate, 87th Congress, Second
Session, Sept. 17, 1962, 82-7); Langley, Banana Wars, 54; Stephen
Kinzer, NYT, April 21, 1984.
114. Booth, End and Beginning; Millett, Guardians of the Dynasty; William
LeoGrande, Foreign Affairs, Fall 1979; PEHR, I; TNCW, 16, 291.
115. Susanne Jonas, in Revolution in Central America; LaFeber, Inevitable
Revolutions, 241. Excluded from the debt repayment was $5.1 owed
Argentina and Israel for arms sales to Somoza; Goldfield, Garrison State,
37.
116. Juan Tamayo, Knight-Ridder Service, BG, Oct. 3, 1983; Philip
Taubman, NYT, May 3, 1984; White, Morass, 67.
117. Miami Herald, Dec. 16, 1984, cited by Alexander Cockburn, Nation,
Feb. 9, 1985 but apparently otherwise ignored.
118. Miami Herald, Dec. 19, 1982; LAT, March 3, 4, 1985. For a record of
CIA and contra attacks, see WSJ, March 5, 6, 1985.
119. Alfred Gellhorn, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 27, 1985.
120. Oxfam America Special Report: Central America, Fall 1985.
121. Editorial, NYT, Oct. 18, 1985.
122. NYT, Aug. 8, 12; WP, Aug. 14, 1985; Edgar Chamorro, NYT, June 24,
1985, New Republic, Aug. 5, 1985; Anthony Lewis, NYT, Oct. 3, 1985.
123. Fred Kaplan, BG, June 12, 1985. After his exposures, Chamorro was
threatened with expulsion from the US, recanted after media exposure
and protest.
124. Dennis Volman, “Skepticism about Eden Pastora’s ‘crash’ reflects his
diminishing prestige,” CSM, July 26, 1985; James LeMoyne, NYT, Sept.
4, 1985.
125. See David Rogers and David Ignatius, WSJ, March 6, 1985, for a