Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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STAFF WRITERS: Daniel Benjamin, Lisa Beyer, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Christine Gorman, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Laurence Zuckerman...
...total collapse of the Soviet Union might create almost as many global problems as it solved. Regional despotisms like Fidel Castro's Cuba or Najibullah's Afghanistan would probably wither quickly, as might many Third World Communist insurgencies. The U.S. economy would benefit handsomely from vastly reduced defense expenditures. But the blessings of a Soviet collapse would certainly be mixed. Just as the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I led to Hitler's brutal exploitation of the resulting power vacuum, so the end of the Pax Sovietica in Eurasia might touch off an ethnic bloodbath among...
STAFF WRITERS: Daniel Benjamin, Lisa Beyer, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Christine Gorman, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Laurence Zuckerman...
...arms shipments were cranked up. If Ortega is indeed the purveyor of SA-7s to the F.M.L.N., why did he choose to send them now? One plausible hypothesis assumes that a demand for the rockets was created by the current rebel offensive. Another is that both Ortega and Castro are rushing to help the F.M.L.N. before Gorbachev pressures them to cut off the rebels as part of his larger rapprochement with Washington. Foreign diplomats, confirming a report in the French daily Le Monde, said that a Soviet emissary told Sandinista and Cuban officials in Managua last week to stop arming...
STAFF WRITERS: Daniel Benjamin, Lisa Beyer, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Christine Gorman, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Laurence Zuckerman...