This booklet is the fifth chapter of a training course developed for Air Force Reserve personnel about the Cold War's impact on world affairs. This chapter "is intended to show how the Communists have attempted to subvert the Latin American nations as a step toward the avowed Communist goal of world domination, and to show how the United States and other American Republics are meeting the perilous Communist threat" (p. 1). This booklet includes background information, analysis, review questions, and a list of readings for further study.

Monthly newsletter of the U.S. Marines' Fifth Regiment stationed in Nicaragua containing news and various information of interest to subscribers. This issue may be incomplete.

Monthly newsletter of the U.S. Marines' Fifth Regiment stationed in Nicaragua containing news and various information of interest to subscribers.

Monthly newsletter of the U.S. Marines' Fifth Regiment stationed in Nicaragua containing news and various information of interest to subscribers.

Letter from Brigadier General John A. Bemis to the Marine Corps Commandant via the Fifth Marine Regiment commander, recommending the confirmation of probationary regular warrants for seven Marines, including Corporal George W. Stone.

Official memo of Second Marine Brigade relaying a commendation via radio message from President Calvin Coolidge to US Marines in Nicaragua, on the occasion of the new Nicaraguan government's installation.

Official memo for Second Marine Brigade regarding a radio communication (# 8618) from Marine Corps Headquarters, explaining procedures for Marines in Nicaragua to have flowers delivered to their mothers on Mother's Day.

Official Second Marine Brigade memo with a radio transcript of Navy Secretary Curtis D. Wilbur's farewell message to the Navy and Marine Corps. Wilbur left office and was succeeded by Charles F. Adams III on March 4, 1929.

Liberty pass for Cpl. George W. Stone from 1:40 PM, 1 December, to 4:20 PM, 2 December, 1928, including orders to report to the 2nd Battalion Commander in Grenada when visiting the city.

Understanding how change occurs in lesser developed countries, particularly in Latin America has been the subject of a prolonged theoretical academic debate. That debate has emphasized economics more that politics in general and predictability over unpredictability in the Latin American region. This paper challenges these approaches. Explaining change requires an examination of the politics of public policy as much as its economic dimensions. Second, change in the Latin American region may be less predictable than it appears. Scholars maintain that change in Latin America occurs when contending elites negotiate it. Their power comes from the various resources they possess. Change, therefore, is not expected to occur as a function of regime change per se. This paper considers the treatment of education policy in Nicaragua during the regimes of the dynastic authoritarianism of Anastasio Somoza Debayle (1967-1979), the revolutionary governments of the Sandinistas (1979-1990), and the democratic-centrist government of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro (1990-1996). The central research question is: When regimes change, do policies change? The methodology defines the independent variable as the regime and education policy as the dependent variable. It posits three hypotheses. The right-wing regime of Somoza was expected to restrict both the qualitative aspects and the financing …

A narrative written by Harold Norman Denny about experiences fighting with the Marine Corps in Nicaragua during the late-1920s.

Official memo from Brig. Gen. Logan Feland with Christmas and New Years wishes for the Marines of Second Brigade in Nicaragua.

Official memo from Brig. Gen. Logan Feland regarding his relinquishment of Second Marine Brigade command to Col. Robert H. Dunlap, and an expression of gratitude to his Marines.

Official order of the Second Marine Brigade in Nicaragua, recognizing the deeds of eleven marines and one sailor in combat as "worthy of emulation." The engagement between the Marines and Sandinistas took place on 13-14 May, 1928, on the "Bocayicto River" near "Pena Blanca" in Nicaragua.

Official orders from Brig. Gen. Logan Feland of Second Marine Brigade, regarding heightened security around the 1928 Nicaraguan General Elections.

Official orders of the Second Marine Brigade regarding observation of the Marine Corps's birthday on November 10th, 1928, signed by Brig. Gen. Logan Feiand.

This report summarizes the eight cases initiated by Members of Congress in which final rulings were reached, which concerned U.S. military activities in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Grenada; military action taken during the Persian Gulf conflict between Iraq and Iran; U.S. activities in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait (prior to the congressional authorization); U.S. participation in NATO's action in Kosovo and Yugoslavia; and U.S. military action in Libya.

A report from USMC Col. L. M. Gulick in Nicaragua to his command element, detailing a battle between Marine forces and Sandinista guerillas near Quilalí on December 30, 1927, including a list of killed- and wounded-in-action marines.

This report addresses politics in Central America in 1969.

Official change sheet for the Fifth Marine Regiment stationed at Managua, Nicaragua, documenting transfers out of and into the regiment, personnel strength, courts martial, promotions and rating reductions, and temporarily assigned personnel.

Official orders from Fifth Marine Regiment Headquarters in Managua detailing the procedure for burying dead Marines when return of their bodies to HQ is not possible.

Letter of approval by 1st Lt. WM. H. Hollingsworth, stipulating that PFC George W. Stone has permission to be off-station for a visit to Grenada, Nicaragua.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.