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...sanctuaries and staging grounds for attacks into South Vietnam. In 1969 the Nixon Administration began the secret U.S. bombing of the sanctuaries. Then in April 1970 it joined South Vietnam in an invasion to clean them out. Just before the assault, Sihanouk was overthrown by a pro-U.S. junta led by Prime Minister Lon Nol, and Cambodians were suddenly engulfed in war against North Vietnamese and their then allies the Khmer Rouge, while U.S. bombs rained from above...
...husband's assassination on a Managua street in 1978, widely pinned on Anastasio Somoza Debayle, ignited the popular outrage that a year later brought the Sandinistas to power. Exploiting Violeta's symbolic value as the widow of a martyr, the victorious rebels persuaded her to join a coalition junta. She accepted but soon fell out with Ortega and his fellow Marxists. Chamorro left the government in 1980 and became publisher of La Prensa. The job automatically made her the most prominent and vociferous enemy of the Sandinistas in the country...
...victory, since Duarte had been robbed of the presidency in 1972, when Salvadoran soldiers halted the vote count and beat the candidate severely. Duarte fled into exile in Venezuela, not venturing home until seven years later, when a coup paved the way for his participation in a military-civilian junta. When the presidential nod finally came, he proclaimed, "This moment is just the beginning of a much longer road...
...Klerk quickly dismantled the shadowy National Security Management System, which controlled the black townships, and downgraded the State Security Council. "The most important thing about De Klerk," says a senior Western diplomat, "is that he is a civilian. He believes in civilian control and getting away from the junta way of doing things...
...Relief convoys stand ready to move it. All that separates millions of malnourished Ethiopians and Sudanese from the food that could save their lives is a handful of stubborn men: President Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia, Lieut. General Omar Hassan el Bashir, the head of Sudan's 15-man junta, and the rebel leaders opposing them. All are more intent upon winning their wars than feeding the people they are supposedly fighting for. "If people die this time, it is not going to be because of the drought but because of the military and political situation," says Father Michael Schultheis...