Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emergency powers that enable security police to detain virtually anyone for any length of time without charges, the DGSE is intimidating, although it is less repressive than the security apparatus in some other Latin American countries. "It is the primary instrument utilized to consolidate the revolution," says a Western diplomat. "Its objective is to identify and neutralize counterrevolutionaries and prevent and neutralize the development of an internal front...
...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...
Although democratic nations are a weak force in the United Nations, their influence is improving, said a visiting U.N. diplomat yesterday in a speech before 200 at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics...
...Administration has offered a simple rationale for its aid request: only through the "two-track approach," a combination of military as well as diplomatic pressure, can the Sandinistas be forced to permit the democratic pluralism that was promised by their 1979 revolution and end their support for Communist revolutions elsewhere in Central America. To persuade Congress that he was in fact pursuing both tracks, and to underscore the connection he sees between the Philippines and Nicaragua, the President last Friday appointed as special envoy to the region Diplomat Philip Habib, who had hours earlier returned from his troubleshooter mission...