Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chun's visit was only the first of the messages that the Administration sent to the world last week. In another unambiguous signal, Secretary of State Alexander Haig removed Robert White, a career diplomat, as U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. White had urged El Salvador's ruling junta to consolidate its power through land redistribution and other reforms. When the Reagan transition team criticized him for acting "in the capacity of a social reformer," he complained to reporters that his effectiveness as ambassador had been undermined...
...replacing White with Frederic Chapin, another experienced career diplomat, Haig indicated that the U.S. probably will send more military aid to the junta. At the same time, he served notice on all U.S. diplomats not to voice their opinions publicly unless they are in line with those of Reagan and Haig. Said a State Department official of the White-Haig relationship: "It was a clear case of mutual incompatibility...
...July 1979, hopes were high that the forces that had united to overthrow hated Dictator Anastasio Somoza would join together to rebuild the war-shattered country. That did not happen. The nine-member Sandinista directorate, which is the real political power behind the country's five-man governing junta, has angered Nicaragua's nonradical friends abroad by adopting a strongly pro-Cuban and pro-Soviet foreign policy. The Sandinistas have also alienated nearly all their onetime anti-Somoza allies at home by trying to impose one-party rule on the country. The regime must now choose whether...
...their own troops. Other observers put the number of guerrillas killed closer to 500. Even if the higher figure were correct, that would still leave an estimated 3,500 guerrilla fighters and 5,000 armed supporters entrenched in strongholds around the country. Some members of the ruling civilian-military junta concede that the leftists are far from vanquished and may actually be regrouping for a new assault...
...back and wondered why they didn't understand what was happening in Vietnam. Some had lort sons and brothers and now were marching on Washington and getting arrested. Quietly--just as quietly as the government covered up the "El Salvador dissent Paper"--the government today floods El Salvador's junta with military aid. And quietly, in the very back pages of newspapers, millions of Americans can read that we're training troops in nearby countries, just as the document stated--or guessed. And in a decade, when millions march on Washington and get arrested, they may wonder again: where...