Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communist-led rebels in El Salvador. Hit-and-run raids by the contras could not accomplish that, however, and so, by April 1982, the goal of U.S. backing for the contras was redefined. It became to "harass" the Sandinistas so greatly that they would find the export of Marxist revolution too painful to continue and therefore would give...
More specifically, whether the contra campaign continues or not, the U.S. cannot let the situation in Central America drift. The risks of Marxist revolution spreading through the isthmus are real. Ultimately that could lead to a destabilized and unfriendly Mexico on the nation's southern border, a flood of refugees across American frontiers and even, at a not inconceivable extreme, Soviet bases next door. Military strengthening of El Salvador and other countries threatened by leftist insurrection is an indispensable part of any strategy to prevent that nightmare from coming true. But the U.S. has overemphasized military measures, even though...
...revamping of his contra organization after months of setbacks blamed on internal rivalries. In the past year, the F.D.N.'s forces have been almost entirely reorganized into small, tough fighting units operating in seven military sectors of Nicaragua. The F.D.N. has adopted the guerrilla tactics used by Marxist-led insurgents in El Salvador, taking over Nicaraguan villages for a few hours, then arranging ambushes of pursuing Sandinista soldiers. Contra leaders claim that Sandinista military morale is drooping. At a "war room" in a campsite near a Honduran army base outside Tegucigalpa, the contras displayed wall-size military maps charting...
...covert anti-Sandinista activity is supposed to have a purpose: impeding the "arms pipeline" that the Reagan Administration insists is in operation between the Marxist-led government of Nicaragua and the Marxist-led insurgents in El Salvador. U.S. intelligence sources believe that pipeline is still very much in existence. Some of the evidence...
...move first against Nicaragua; indeed, it gave the Sandinistas $75 million in economic aid the year after the 1979 overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, which the U.S. implicitly encouraged. But Nicaragua joined with the Soviets and Cubans to preach Marxist-Leninist revolution through the region. Even the Democratic-controlled House Intelligence Committee found last year that the Salvadoran "insurgency depends for its lifeblood-arms, ammunition, financing, logistics and command-and-con-trol facilities-upon outside assistance from Nicaragua and Cuba." The crucial question is how far the Administration intends to go with its support of the contras. Its original...