Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The U.S. recommends intervention, but "Tacho"fights on
That gloomy forecast reflected Somoza's growing diplomatic isolation as well as his deteriorating military position. The first setback came when the Andean Group (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia and Venezuela) abandoned its efforts to negotiate a truce in the latest flare-up of the 19-month-old civil war...
But more ominous from Somoza's viewpoint was a U.S. request for intervention that would end both the civil war and his family's 46-year dictatorial rule over Nicaragua. The day after a national guardsman wantonly murdered ABC-TV Correspondent Bill Stewart (see PRESS), the Carter Administration...
Washington's program was aimed in part at preventing the creation of a Cuban-style Communist government in Nicaragua. Declared Vance: "There is mounting evidence of involvement by Cuba and others in the internal problems of Nicaragua." That charge drew an angry reply from Cuba's foreign ministry...
Strategic perceptions vary accordingly. French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, for instance, is expected to lobby strenuously for legislated energy saving and tight price controls in the name of "consumer solidarity." Many Japanese and West German experts, however, argue that governments should not interfere with market forces. Their theory...