Word: junta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week to preserve the National Guard, fearing the radical and Communist persuasion of some members of the Sandinista Liberation Army and ignoring the symbolic ties of the National Guard to Somoza's government. But these attempts were as unsuccessful as appeals to include more conservatives in the forming junta...
...junta sets out to build "the country Sandino dreamed...
Whatever Sandino's dreams, the question now was whether Nicaragua's revolution would give birth to a mildly leftist but democratic society or a militant Marxist state. The five-member junta that rules the country has so far followed a middle-of-the-road course, promising elections, an economy based on a mixture of private and government enterprise, and an independent stance in foreign affairs. Although the junta remains united, there have been foreshadowings of an eventual breakdown in the alliance of radicals and moderates who combined to topple Somoza. Asked if he supported the junta...
Even more worrisome were the junta's foreign policy moves. In the first official visit by members of the junta to another country, Alfonso Robelo Callejas and Moises Hassan led a delegation of 23 guerrillas to Cuba. Fidel Castro was celebrating the 26th anniversary of his assault on Havana's Moncada barracks. Repaying the Palestine Liberation Organization for the arms and other support it provided during the Sandinistas' "final offensive," the new Nicaraguan government announced that it would seek a "close relationship" with Arab countries...
Washington hopes that the new government's need for assistance in rebuilding its shattered society will keep the junta on a moderate course. The Carter Administration clearly is trying to strengthen the tenuous relationship with the new government that developed during the long negotiations that led to Somoza's abdication. At his Washington press conference last week, President Carter said it was a mistake for Americans to assume that every abrupt change in the hemisphere is somehow "the result of secret, massive Cuban intervention." As for the future, he said, "we will use our efforts in a proper...