Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...derived from the momentum of the campaign. Reagan entered the White House with a clear-cut set of positions that in his mind (and the minds of many cowed opponents) had been ratified by his sweeping election victory. The agenda?cut social spending, slash taxes, start a big military buildup, voice a stern anti-Soviet line in foreign affairs?was set. The priorities were clear: get the budget and tax cuts through Congress before anything else...
...been dominated by concern over El Salvador, which Washington charged was being threatened by leftist rebels whose support came from Cuba and Nicaragua. In a meeting with Nicaragua's Foreign Minister last week, Haig slightly modified the Administration's harsh rhetoric about that country's arms buildup and spoke of a possible normalization of relations between the U.S. and the left-wing government there. For such efforts, Haig merits a B-plus in international diplomacy. In intramural diplomacy, he is always in danger of flunking...
Weinberger's hawkish statements on foreign policy issues have often been poorly planned and counterproductive. In Bonn last April, Weinberger denigrated the benefits of detente and called for a buildup of NATO's conventional and nuclear forces; Haig had to reassure allies that the U.S. was still committed to pursuing arms control negotiations with the Soviets as well as upgrading the Western deterrent. Haig also had to rein in Weinberger when he announced, without consulting NATO leaders, that the Administration was planning to produce neutron warheads for eventual deployment in Europe. Haig promised the allies there would...
...about what Haig calls the "drift toward totalitarianism" of the Nicaraguan regime, the presence of some 1,500 Cuban military advisers in the country and the role of Nicaragua in supporting the left-wing guerrillas in El Salvador. Haig is also irked by Nicaragua's own heavy arms buildup, which he believes is sponsored by Cuba and the Soviet Union. As one U.S. official put it, the buildup threatens to turn the tiny republic (pop. 2.7 million) into "a superpower in Central American terms...
There is no ignoring Nicaragua's military buildup. The Sandinista arsenal now includes some 30 Soviet tanks, and the Reagan Administration suspects that MiG-21 aircraft may soon be shipped to Nicaragua, giving that country clear air superiority over its neighbors. On the ground, Nicaraguan military strength is already well established; the Sandinista army of 26,000 is at least twice the size of any other in Central America. In addition, Nicaragua has a "ready reserve" force...