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...months between the two countries. In essence, the proposal calls for the U.S. to resume aid to the Central American nation, pledge non-intervention in Nicaraguan affairs and pressure counter-revolutionaries training on American soil to cease their activities. In return, the Sandinistas must agree to end aid to leftist guerrillas in El Salvador and put a limit on their arms build-up and the number of foreign military advisors in the region...
...thus prove to be ineffective. According to a State Department official. Washington has asked for "an end to Nicaraguan support for insurgencies in neighboring countries." The problem lies with the ambiguity of the word "support." Clearly the Sandinistas will not agree to curtailing their moral support for any leftist group in Central America. And it hardly seems likely that the leaders in Managua will publicly disavow material support for insurgencies--support they have consistently claimed does not exist. In the world of international relations, where every word is carefully weighed this minor rhetorical point could undermine the U.S. plan...
...election day approached, the guerrillas sought to disrupt the balloting, which leftist parties boycotted, by promising death to voters. Warned one rebel slogan: "Vote in the morning, die in the afternoon." Even before election day dawned clear and stiflingly hot on March 28, the guerrillas launched scattered attacks in several of the capital's northern suburbs and a number of provincial towns. In the eastern city of Usulutan, nearly 500 insurgents made the sharpest assault of the day. Before retreating they managed to prevent local officials from opening the polls...
...hopeful news from Central America in a long time: the record turnout of 1.4 million voters, more than double what U.S. officials had predicted. In the aftermath, most American news organizations told touching anecdotes about voters who braved bullets, but pointed up only belatedly the fundamental political result: that leftist guerrillas had been discredited, at least for the moment, as a popular force...
...opportunity to establish mutually productive relations with the Vietnamese slipped away because Washington preferred to undermine a left-wing government (read: monolithic communism) rather than endorse self-determination through democracy. Fearing a leftist victory in any free election, the United States openly sabotaged the Geneva accords of 1954 and subsequently intervened directly with military aid ultimately sending off half a million troops to continue the misguided campaign...