Word: client
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prime listening posts in the region and home to the 10,000-man U.S. Southern Command. To some, the U.S.'s difficulties in Panama are reminiscent of Iran. Having struck another Faustian bargain with a ruthless and corrupt dictator, the U.S. again finds itself turning against a longtime client with no viable democratic replacement in the wings...
...Democrats, with a tightly bunched group of frontrunners, focused on attacking U.S. policy in Central America, with Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis suggesting he would be willing to tolerate a Soviet client state in the region as long as it was not "a platform for offensive military operations or the subversion of neighboring governments...
Pressed as to the conditions under which hewould tolerate a Soviet client state in CentralAmerica, Dukakis said: "If you're talking aboutthe introduction of offensive weapons from theSoviet Union, we have every right...to take actionagainst that...
...right-wing lobbying group has tried to persuade the Justice Department to investigate the lawyer under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Though some friends remain surprised by Reichler's choice of a major client (he also represents the Philippines and Guatemala), they praise his legal ability. "He's a very bright, very articulate lawyer who is totally dedicated to the Sandinista cause," says Stuart Eizenstat, onetime legal colleague and former domestic policy adviser to Jimmy Carter...
...Arias plan has become the great totem of the current Nicaragua debate. But it is no substitute for an American foreign policy. Americans still have to ask themselves the basic questions. Questions of national interest: Can the U.S. risk the domination of Central America by a Soviet client state? And questions of national purpose: Is it right for the U.S. to support a guerrilla force fighting a Leninist dictatorship? "Central American" answers to these questions are conflicting and cacophonous. In deciding its own answers, ! America might want to listen to various of these voices. It is not obliged...