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...country's leaders have proclaimed it the Year of the Militarization of the Process. And, indeed, almost everywhere in revolutionary Nicaragua there are signs of a nation girding for war. In the capital of Managua and throughout the countryside, youthful reservists, peasants and members of so-called mass organizations are being armed and dispatched to the borders under the red-and-black banners of the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front. Along roadsides and on the adobe walls of village buildings, posters inveigh against the evils of "Yankee imperialism." Other placards extol "revolutionary heroes" who have fought against and died...
There is another kind of mobilization in Nicaragua: a daily muster to find food. Men, women and children line up outside government-run "supermarkets of the people" in Managua and other cities. Their hope is to be first for whatever minimal, unpredictable rations of meat and chicken may be available that day. Even the early risers are frequently disappointed. At a typical scramble, housewives confront a butcher who tells them that the meat locker is empty and he has "no idea" when more supplies will arrive. Milk and fish are scarce, fresh eggs are the rarest of treats, and produce...
...some lush corners of Nicaragua, food shortages are not a problem. At a doctor's ranch-style home in a tree-lined southern suburb of Managua, thick churrasco steaks wait beside an outdoor barbecue grill as some 20 weekend guests sip cocktails and pick at turtle egg and black conch appetizers. Half a dozen children race through the garden to the swimming pool. Most of the guests are middle-aged relatives. They talk little of politics but much of their kin who have left for the U.S. There is only a brief flare-up of political emotion...
...immeasurable improvement over Somoza. And measured by an accurate yardstick, human rights excesses in Nicaragua are considerably fewer than in El Salvador or Guatemala. If we allow them enough breathing room, the Sandinistas could produce a truly democratic form of government. Instead, by hindering the efforts Managua is making to improve the present system, we are only choking off the erratic first breaths of an ideal our country supposedly advances...
...events in Lebanon and Central America. All ran holiday-themed stories about the politically troubled American labor union movement. There were notable differences, of course: the networks played up stories for which they had vivid pictures-the police crackdown against antigovernment demonstrators in Chile, an air raid in Managua by opponents of the Nicaraguan junta. Without comparable footage, the News-Hour dealt with these events in a few sentences. Says Lehrer: "The networks will spend $25,000 to rush home a videotape of a building burning in Beirut. We are more interested in perspective...