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...however, the contras prove that they are a force that can seriously threaten the Sandinistas, attitudes may shift. "At cockfights in Nicaragua, most people won't make a bet until one cock is already bleeding and close to losing the fight," says a Western diplomat. "Nicaraguans want to be on the safe side with the winner. In this war, the people will join in only when the final outcome is absolutely clear to everybody." In the meantime, most will endure, sacrifice and fence-sit as best they...
...Sandinista-sponsored subversion. The democratic governments of the region are understandably nervous that the Sandinistas will seek to export their own revolution. "The Central American countries don't dislike the Sandinistas because of their Soviet connections, but because of their connections with homegrown radicals," says a senior U.S. diplomat...
Reagan's special envoy to the region, Philip Habib, has insisted that privately most of these governments, as well as those of Nicaragua's immediate neighbors, support the U.S. policy. They cannot say so publicly, he asserts, for fear of provoking the Sandinistas. In their hearts, says another Western diplomat in the region, most Central American leaders "wish the Sandinistas would disappear...
Jean-Bernard Raimond, 60, a respected career diplomat who has been serving as French Ambassador to Moscow, received the Foreign Affairs portfolio...
...last week in the English-language China Daily, widely regarded as one of Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping's main conduits for sending messages to Western powers. "Anyone reading that article would think that the U.S. is an equal threat to them and to world peace," said one dismayed Western diplomat. Whatever the reasons, Peking seemed to be putting the U.S. on notice that its most-favored-superpower status cannot be taken for granted...