Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Then, going on the offensive with a reminder that Mondale has disavowed programs like the Soviet grain embargo, which he supported as Vice President, Bush added: "And I'm not sure ... if I didn't, I'd go doing what Mr. Mondale has done with Jimmy Carter: jump away from...
...MAJORITY opinion overlooks much of what has actually happened in Central America over the past six years. Consider the last two years of the Carter Administration--El Salvador descended into a bloody civil war a revolution in Nicaragua was followed by a ruthless purging of non-Sandinista revolutionaries, and the resultant junta set out to militarize the Nicaraguan people on a soul never before seen in Central America, except possible in Soviet-supported Cuba. Considering the last four years in comparison. We are extremely skeptical of the flippant dismissal of the Reagan approach as "peace destroying...
...costs; without a matching concern for the outcome of any such talks or the welfare of the Central American people. It seems that Americans have forgotten that the original 1979 Nicaraguan revolution against the rightly-hated Somoza regime was broadly-based. Its leadership reflected this pluralism. The Carter Administration aided the ruling junta because it wanted to help such a multifaceted uprising...
...Marxist Sandinistas repudiated the spirit of the Carter help, purged the junta of all non-Sandinista elements, and proceeded to indoctrinate their people with Marxist ideology and excessive militarism. The oft-cited progress toward literacy in Nicaragua loses its luster in such a context; we doubt the value of reading when all printed materials are controlled by a totalitarian regime...
...Carter's approach to the Sandinistas failed to help the Nicaraguans achieve the kind of freedom for which so many of them fought and died. By contrast, Reagan's alleged "bristling militarism" and "single-minded devotion to force and bluster" have apparently induced the Sandinistas to at least go through the motions of an election and begin reform. The effect of U.S. pressure in prompting elections is obvious: in the first place, the Sandinistas' Marxist ideology denies the usefulness and even the possibility for real elections. And in the second place, any group with such a hold on all sources...