Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doing, he allowed the Sandinistas to call Haig's hand. "We have never accepted the U.S. charge of an arms flow through here, but that does not mean we are unwilling to discuss the point," said Sergio Ramirez Mercado, a member of Nicaragua's three-man junta. Nicaragua also called for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council so that it could present its case. The Administration, whose sincerity about desiring a negotiated accommodation with the Sandinistas has been in some doubt, found itself diplomatically cornered...
...evidence, if not 100% conclusive, that D'Aubuisson and his group are responsible for the murder of Archbishop Romero." White also linked D'Aubuisson to the right-wing death squads, a charge that D'Aubuisson denies. He has been accused of plotting to overthrow the present junta but never brought to trial...
Financed by expatriate oligarchs and rightists within the country, D'Aubuisson launched ARENA last spring. He talks about altering the junta's land reform and exterminating the Communists. By that he sometimes seems to mean anything from a Christian Democrat to a Marxist guerrilla. Aided by slick electioneering techniques, D'Aubuisson's party picked up momentum last month and emerged as the main challenger to Duarte's Christian Democrats. The candidate who has been so closely associated with violence was himself the victim of an assassination attempt in February. Sometimes D'Aubuisson will take...
...week's end, Nicaragua called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council so that Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra could personally discuss what a Sandinista spokesman called the "ever increasing danger of a large-scale military intervention" by the U.S. It was not clear whether the Nicaraguans could muster the nine Security Council votes required to convene a session. Would Ortega engage in negotiations while in the U.S.? Said a Nicaraguan official: "We are well disposed to carry out any talks." But State Department officials were not inclined to go along. Said one: "The U.S. regards Nicaragua...
...candidate of the far right, is determined these days to soften his image as a gunman. He rose in Salvadoran society by attending his country's military academy, a traditional route to the top. After the 1979 coup that removed General Carlos Humberto Romero and installed a reformist junta, D'Aubuisson was purged from the army by the new government. Excerpts from D'Aubuisson's session with TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief James Willwerth and TIME's Timothy Loughran...