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156. Jim Morrell, “Contadora: the Treaty on Balance,” International Reports,
Center for International Policy, June 1985; Tom Farer, “Contadora: The
Hidden Agenda,” Foreign Policy, Summer 1985. On earlier US efforts to
prevent a peaceful settlement, see Gutman, “America’s Diplomatic
Charade.”
157. NYT, May 2, 1985.
158. Editorial, London Times, June 14, 1985.
159. Editorial, Toronto Globe and Mail, Nov. 12, 1984. The editors hold that
Nicaragua’s relation to the US should be recognized as similar to
Poland’s relation to the USSR; one wonders whether they really
understand exactly what they are implying. One might also note that the
US has not recently been invaded through Nicaragua and virtually
destroyed by a great power that is now part of a military alliance
dominated by the USSR.
160. Quoted by John Saul, Monthly Review (March 1985). Citing the same
remark, John Hanlon comments that the plan is the same for
Mozambique; New Statesman, Oct. 19, 1984.
161. Davis, Slavery, 65; for the population estimate, Davis cites Sherburne
Cook and Woodrow Borah, Essays in Population History: Mexico and the
Caribbean, I (U. of California Press, 1971).
162. Langley, Banana Republics, 119, 129, 173; Reagan cited in Barry,
Other Side of Paradise, 339.
163. Bruce Calder, Impact of Intervention. The following quotes and
comments on the 1916-24 intervention are from this study unless
otherwise indicated; pp. 16, xiv, 100, 239-40, 39-40, 240, 123f.,
161, 196, 140-1, 239, 158, 186, 249.
164. Piero Gleijeses, The Dominican Crisis (Johns Hopkins, 1978; expanded
from the 1965 French original), 18-9, 336.
165. Gleijeses, Dominican Crisis, 19.
166. Langley, Banana Wars, 156; Abraham Lowenthal, The Dominican
Intervention (Harvard, 1972), 24; Gleijeses, Dominican Crisis, 22, 27,
341.
167. Hans Morgenthau, The Purpose of American Politics (Vintage, 1964).