onРincreasingly used Honduras as a base for the contra war. The Administration set up aРnumber of military and training facilities — some American, some contra, and some housingРArgentine mercenaries — along the border between Nicaragua and Honduras. “[T]he USSРHonduras,” as one observer noted, was little more than “a [stationary] aircraft carrier.”8РThese strategies seemed to represent both a conscious acceleration of AmericanРinvolvement in the region, and the inertia of past involvements and failures.9Р6 The following paragraph is drawn from Walter Lafeber, Inevitable Revolutions (New York,Р1989), p. 307-310; and Peter Kornbluh, “Nicaragua,” in Michael KIare (ed), Low IntensityРWarfare (New York, 1983), pp. 139-149.РNote: FOOTNOTE 6 provides general background sources.Р7 Peter Kornbluh,
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