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...government has quadrupled the number of its uniformed soldiers and brought in between 1,700 and 2,000 Cuban security advisers. Honduras and Costa Rica are worried. So is El Salvador, which has suffered from Nicaragua's role as the springboard for the Salvadoran insurgency." Said another U.S. diplomat, who traveled from the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa to observe the war games: "Big Pine is a political maneuver rather than one of major military significance...
Nicaraguan officials candidly admitted that they were embarked on a form of propaganda campaign against the Big Pine maneuvers. Said a Sandinista diplomat in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua: "When there's a well-known rapist in the neighborhood, you scream in order not to suffer...
...outcome. West Germany, in particular, is involved in an emotional debate over nuclear arms. While the Soviet negotiations could stall, NATO leaders would find it hard to risk the political heat of accepting the American missiles. "What the Americans need is more skill in presenting their case," one diplomat in Bonn observed bluntly last week. "Let's face it, we're not in a security argument, we're in a political debate...
...pipe-smoking man with a passion for Shakespeare, Adelman is a relatively pragmatic Republican who shares President Reagan's abiding mistrust of the Soviet Union. Adelman is convinced, says a former associate, that the U.S. "must negotiate from strength." One Western diplomat calls his speeches at the U.N. "some of the most ferocious language heard around here since the cold...
...complicate matters further, military operations against the warlords by both the Thai and Burmese governments have led to cross-border incursions by troops from both countries, which are straining diplomatic relations. Last month the warlords began hitting back, machine-gunning and looting a tourist boat in Thailand's northern Chiangrai province. Says a U.S. diplomat in Bangkok: "Our mission in [neighboring] Chiangmai [province] is almost literally under the gun. The opium warlords have so many contacts in Chiangmai that anything is possible...