Word: nicaragua
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...Ceausescu as a leader independent of Moscow, Noriega as a Panamanian nationalist. The U.S. was not above using both when they served its special purposes. Richard Nixon welcomed Ceausescu's help in negotiating the first opening to China; under Ronald Reagan, the CIA sought Noriega's assistance in aiding Nicaragua's contras. But in Ceausescu's 24 years of iron rule and Noriega's six, both eventually proved once again Lord Acton's thesis that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely...
Meanwhile, 20 American diplomats expelled by Nicaragua in retaliation for a U.S. troop search of the residence of that country's ambassador to Panama left Managua on Monday night...
...Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government on Friday gave the diplomats 72 hours to leave the country and ordered the U.S. Embassy support staff cut from 320 employees...
...unrelenting hostility to Cuba, Nicaragua and Viet Nam, the Bush Administration gives the impression of flying on an automatic pilot that was programmed back in the days when the Soviet Union was still in the business of exporting revolution. Fidel Castro, the Sandinistas and the rulers in Hanoi are all, in varying ways and to varying degrees, disagreeable characters. But so are plenty of other leaders with whom the U.S. deals. The U.S. might be able to cope with these particular bad actors more effectively if it stopped treating them as Soviet clones. That very notion has lost its meaning...
...late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. In fact, Bush has militarily intervened for the most part where communism was not an issue. Where it is, his record is mixed: military aid to anticommunist forces in Afghanistan and El Salvador but attempts to find a political solution in Cambodia and Nicaragua...