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‘Approaches to the Americas’

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Fuentes’ article on Nicaragua has patently characterized him as being naive, an ideologue or a communist sympathizer.

We went through the same stories with Fidel Castro who passed himself off as a democrat and would establish Cuba with a pluralistic type of government.

Instead he gave us a missile crisis and sent combat troops to Angola and Ethiopia as a proxy army for Russia. Central America is much too close to us for another Cuban installation.

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Failure to fund the contras will eventually force us to send in the Marines.

The application of the Monroe Doctrine still makes sense.

SAMUEL S. SHERWIN

Los Angeles

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