Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fashion." After years of hunger--and, he claims, torture--he was freed in 1974 when a group of Sandinistas barged into a fancy Managua Christmas party, took a number of guests hostage and successfully demanded that Somoza release ! certain guerrillas, among them Ortega. He was then hustled off to Cuba, where he trained for several months under veterans of Castro's revolution before returning covertly to Nicaragua...
...America, a haven for dope smugglers and terrorists. The country is in the grip of "an outlaw regime" of Marxist-Leninists who torture pastors and burn down synagogues. Left to fester, Reagan warned the nation last week, the Nicaragua of Sandinista Leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra will become a "second Cuba"--worse, a "second Libya, right on the doorstep of the United States...
...going to win," declared White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan. "We will never give up," vowed the President as he posed for photographers with three contra leaders who had flown to Washington to plead with legislators on Capitol Hill. He held up a button that read IF YOU LIKE CUBA, YOU'LL LOVE NICARAGUA...
...most critical "choke point" of all, the Panama Canal. There have been some ominous signs that Nicaragua is preparing to serve as a Soviet base. Warsaw Pact engineers are building a deep-water port on the Caribbean side, "similar," Reagan said in his speech, "to the naval base in Cuba for Soviet-built submarines." Under construction outside Managua is "the largest military airfield in Central America," said Reagan, "similar to those in Cuba from which Russian Bear bombers patrol the U.S. East Coast from Maine to Florida...
...receiving erroneous reports that the Soviets had sent MiG-21 fighter planes to the Sandinistas, the U.S. firmly warned the Kremlin that any offensive weapons in Nicaragua would be "unacceptable." Though an ardent suppliant for Soviet aid, Nicaragua does not appear to be quite the Soviet client state that Cuba is. The Kremlin regards Nicaragua as a "target of opportunity, and therefore useful, but also expendable," says a State Department official. Moscow "provides only enough military aid to make United States military intervention costly and save the Soviet 'revolutionary' reputation, not enough to guarantee survival or risk confrontation," writes Robert...