NCJ Number
105968
Journal
Crime and Social Justice Issue: 27-28 Dated: (1987) Pages: complete issue
Editor(s)
G Shank
Date Published
1987
Length
260 pages
Annotation
Ten articles interpret 'Contragate' revelations as evidence of the corruption and confusion that riddles the Reagan administration's antiterrorism policies in the Middle East and Latin America and cite similar corruption in struggles for justice within the United States.
Abstract
Articles in the first section resolve definitional issues regarding the concepts of terrorism, antiterrorism, and counterterrorism. These articles also relate counterterrorism policy to the dominant features of Reagan administration foreign-policy initiatives and to the apparent violations of international law associated with this administration. Articles on Central and Latin America propose the existence of an international terrorist network integral to the political superstructure of U.S. client-state economies, in which human and political rights are eroded with each improvement in the business climate for U.S.-based multinational and transnational corporations. In the second section case studies of the repressive instruments required to create this climate point to systematic cooperation between global frontier managers, such as the Israeli-United States connection, and continent-wide coordination between death squad and intelligence forces. The contrasting Reagan administration policies with respect to Nicaragua and Mozambique are examined. The third section of articles focuses on the Middle East, particularly the strategic relationship between the United States and Israel and the crisis in Lebanon. The remaining articles focus on the Reagan administration's use of the McCarran-Walter Act in the immigration case of Margaret Randall and the conditions resulting from the 22-month lockdown by the Federal Bureau of Prisons at the Marion Penitentiary (Illinois).