Word: napolean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...create chaos. First the CIA began to support the right-wing death squad violence that, between 1981 and 1985, left 60,000 suspected insurgents and union members dead. When the Reagan administration came under fire for its support of the death squads, it sponsored the elections which brought Jose Napolean Duarte to power in 1983. Duarte was supposed to have found a middle, "democratic" ground between the rightwing army death squads and the revolutionary FMLN/FDR...
They're like Napolean's army without any cannons, or a Blitzkrieg without any bombs...
...concientious capital reporters, wary of its mysterious origins, mentioned the document's appearance only once, but the report's authors had guaranteed its longevity by sending it to those organizations who would revel in its conclusions--among them that the United States halt aid to the junta of Jose Napolean Duarte and consider aiding the leftist guerrillas. If the government was going to quietly wish the report farewell, church and human rights groups had a very different idea. Before long, they were xeroxing the document, advertising it, releasing press reports on it, passing it out to congressmen and their aides...
...week resumed military aid to El Salvador's repressive junta. In some ways, it was no surprise that Carter, who for four years has touted human rights, should reveal the hollowness of his ideals in his final presidential flourish. His administration has increased aid to the regime of Jose Napolean Duarte from $1 million to almost $6 million in four years...
Later, when he traveled to Peking in search of a job as a librarian, scholars laughed at his southern (Hunan) dialect. In this respect, Wilson said, Mao resembles leaders, all of whom came from outlying provinces, such as Napolean, a Corsican, Hitler, an Austrian, and Stalin, a Georgian...