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...history Nicaragua: Revolution in the Family, Shirley Christian tells of a meeting eight months before the fall of President Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua. Two of President Carter's top Latin American advisers urged that Somoza be forced out quickly to permit creation of a new, moderate government before the Sandinistas could pick up the pieces. Other advisers were opposed, including Robert Pastor of the National Security Council. He recalls, "Pete (Viron Vaky) felt we could and should force out Somoza in the fall of '78, and I felt that we couldn't and shouldn't . . . I felt that Carter should...
Chamorro wrote that the CIA directed the rebel leaders' quest for Congressional funding, wrote their speeches and policy, and forced them to join with members of the former Nicaraguan dictator Gen. Anastasio Somoza's National Guard. The witnesses testified about reported contra atrocities and gave estimates of the damage to and legitimacy of the Nicaraguan government...
...settlement. As drafted by National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, the plan involves working through a new, broadly based anti-Sandinista group, the United Nicaraguan Opposition. It includes ex-Sandinistas who turned against the government because of its repressive measures, as well as some former followers of deposed Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza. Though the Sandinistas have so far refused to negotiate with the group, the Administration believes that UNO can eventually lay legitimate claim to represent the forces of democracy. Says National Security Council Aide Donald Fortier: "The key issue is the emergence of a viable center...
...frontier will be enough to contain the contras. But the Sandinistas do not seem to have a strategy for the domestic disenchantment that has begun to seep even into their own ranks. In Managua's Barrio Riguero slum, a stronghold of militance during the 1979 insurrection against former Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, a Sandinista activist named Maria says she remains faithful to the revolution's principles, but "life is getting harder." The main problem: "Basic necessities cost more and more, and some items are almost impossible to find...
...Sujansky '86 4:11 Alex Zaslavsky '86 4:13:26 David Finn '86 4:15:12 Dave Rosen 4:17 Rachel H. Inker '86 4:20 Edmund Tijerina '87 4:23 Jeffrey Phillips '86 4:27:38 Malcolm Middleton 4:30 John T. Paas '86 4:31 Kristy E. Anastasio '85 4:35 Sean L. McDonough '86 4:57:30 Michael Vorenberg '86 4:57:30 Shawn Bookin '87 4:58:50 Michael Yampol '85 4:59 Nick Lawrence '86 5:02 Lou J. Morsberger '85 5:11:32 T. Kyle Stanley '85 5:23 Blosker D. Meitzen...