12/24/1982
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"I cannot tell you how deeply moved Vice President Bush and I were by our visit to this brave and remarkable man."
"The Sandinista Government of Nicaragua, a Communist regime fighting a civil war against 15,000 Nicaraguan freedom fighters opposed to their oppression, agreed to a series of sweeping democratic reform..."
"So much is at stake."
"This failure to support the freedom fighters has had costly and sad consequences."