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...serious comparison. Jumblatt has perhaps 30,000 tribesmen under his command. General Giap had half a million. Two decades ago we may have mistaken Hanoi for a fifth-rate power. Now we recognize that its talent for militarizing society, a talent it shares with other Leninist states, enabled it to achieve the status of a regional superpower. (Today it has the fifth largest armed force in the world.) Jumblatt is at most a small counter on a much larger board...
...point: the U.S. may have intervened directly two weeks ago, but the Soviets and the Cubans have been engaging in indirect aggression in the Western Hemi sphere for years. Nor is the problem confined to superpowers. The Sandinista government of Nicaragua provides tactical aid and support for the Marxist-Leninist rebels of nearby El Salvador, and the U.S., of course, is backing anti-Sandinista rebels. (Last week the U.S. Senate approved $19 million in continuing covert aid for the Nicaraguan insurgents.) Says Detlev Vagts, professor of law at Harvard: "I don't think international law has got a grip...
...Notes International Law Professor Rosalyn Higgins of the London School of Economics: "The preoccupation with self-determination and ending colonialism has led to stresses and strains on the old limits on the use of force. In the newer trend, lending aid to gain self-determination is accepted." For Marxist-Leninist governments, a double standard is even easier to achieve, since Communist ideology rejects non-Marxist forms of government. Says Alfred P. Rubin, professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy: "The Soviets can get away with major, minor or theoretical violations of international law because their power and standing...
...dedicated to the resistance of Marxist-Leninist totalitarianism. We are also dedicated to human rights and democracy. It is in pursuit of both of these objectives that we have come to look at the situation." So declared former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as he arrived at San Salvador's Ilopango airport last week accompanied by the eleven other members of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America. Kissinger had posed the essential dilemma for U.S. policy in the region: how to halt Marxist subversion while securing democratic rule for nations plagued with dictatorships of both the left...
...catalyzed the national rebellion that was already building against the regime, and subsequently served to sunder the bereaved family. In 1980, only a year after the revolution, the newspaper was paralyzed by a struggle between family members who supported the new Sandinista government and those critical of its Marxist-Leninist tendencies. The conservatives won, and Chamorro's brother Xavier, editor of La Prensa, left to form his own newspaper, taking most of the staff with him. Today Chamorro's widow, his brothers and sisters and four children are arrayed in almost equal numbers on opposing sides...