Word: communisme
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...Sandinistas reject such labels as Communism and Leninism, arguing that Sandinismo is a hybrid ideology unique to Nicaragua. They charge that their revolution has been skewed by a U.S.-sponsored military threat. "All repression," says a Foreign Ministry official, "is a result of the war." Otherwise, the Sandinistas argue, they would be well on the way to honoring the three pledges they made in 1979: to pursue a nonaligned foreign policy, to encourage political pluralism and to establish a mixed economy...
...over what should be done about the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua all the more important. The argument so far has been waged with rhetoric that is more emotional than enlightening. Before the vote, Administration spokesmen warned that anyone opposing aid to the contras would be regarded as "soft on Communism." Wagging a finger toward the Democratic side of the aisle, G.O.P. Congressman Henry Hyde of Illinois charged that "history is going to assign to you folks the role of pallbearers to democracy in Central America." Such attacks predictably backfired among members of Congress who saw their patriotism impugned. Accusing...
...President is not guilty of posturing about the Nicaraguan threat. He truly believes. To him, Nicaragua's Ortega, in his Castro-style fatigues, is not merely a Third World revolutionary who delights in tweaking Uncle Sam, but an agent of the Kremlin, bent on spreading Communism through the hemisphere. When the question of what to do about the Sandinistas comes up at National Security Council meetings, Reagan assumes what one aide calls his "Churchillian mode." The normally amiable and relaxed President sits up straight in his chair; his eyes flash, his lips tighten, and his hands ball up into fists...
Reagan claims that military and economic aid to the Contras is necessary "so we'll never have to send our own American boys." He even told congressmen they had a choice between supporting him and supporting communism. But the choice is not so simple...
...scheduled a television address for this coming Sunday. The issue was publicly cast by the President, and more strongly by his top advisers, in us-or-them terms, with a blunt accusation that those who oppose aiding the contras are lining up, inadvertently or otherwise, on the side of Communism...