Word: managua
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...consensus about what Shultz's depiction of the Sandinistas as unacceptable means, not in terms of anyone's tastes and preferences but in terms of a policy that can be carried out in the real world: What is it that the U.S. cannot accept about the junta in Managua? And what must the U.S. do to transform the Sandinista regime into something the U.S. can live with...
...G.I.s in the jungle as something that no one wants to see but that might be required down the road if the Congress defies the President now. Sooner or later, they say, someone has to do to the Sandinistas what they did to the Somocistas--drive them out of Managua--and if the contras can't, the job may fall to the 82nd Airborne...
...option to date. But there are even greater disadvantages to the alternatives now available: pursuit of a military victory; abrupt abandonment of the contras, toward which Congress now seems inclined; and an open-ended civil war, which might wear down American will before it wears down the junta in Managua...
...WORLD: Managua downs a contra cargo plane, and a captured American sings...
There was a time when a job at the U.S. embassy in Managua was the envy of many Nicaraguans. The 200-odd nationals employed by the U.S. as guards, drivers, administrators and accountants earn at least twice as much as most of their countrymen. Last week those jobs suddenly seemed less appealing. Since Nov. 2, the leftist Sandinista government has summoned at least 17 embassy employees for interrogation at a nearby security compound. Some reported afterward that they were forcibly detained for up to 13 hours by security agents who subjected them to abusive and threatening treatment...