Word: nicaragua
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...precise American superplanes are, and if Vietnam after the War is any indication, the largest bombing raid in history will reduce Iraq to a heap of rubble. Kuwait will probably look worse. And when all the killing is over, if we behave as we did after Vietnam, Panama and Nicaragua, then Iraq and Kuwait will remain in shambles for years to come...
...shoulder-held antiaircraft missiles to use against the U.S.-backed government. Baker gave his counterpart a photo of a seized launching tube, and Shevardnadze promised to investigate. In their last meeting in Houston, Shevardnadze informed Baker that the missiles were part of a shipment sent to Nicaragua in 1986. Armed with that information, Bush Administration officials demanded an explanation from the Nicaraguan military, which is still controlled by the Sandinistas. They admitted that the missiles came from their stock but claimed the shipment was not "officially" sanctioned...
...Hispanics," they explain, can be people who have lived in the United States all their lives. Or they can be recent arrivals from Nicaragua. Their ancestors may have hailed from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Spain or any one of a number of places around the globe...
WHAT'S the solution? One alternative approach would be to wait for economic sanctions to ruin Iraq's economy. The destruction of Nicaragua's economy by U.S. sanctions--though they were relatively weak and took several years to work--illustrates that military force is not our only foreign policy tool...
...Airlines, owned partly by former Sandinista officials, inaugurated service between Managua and Miami, its rented Boeing 727 less than half-filled with passengers lured by a bargain $275 round-trip fare. Said CAAL director Herty Lewites, the former Minister of Tourism: "I want to be the richest man in Nicaragua." Backed by $1.75 million from a Nicaraguan-born millionaire living in Greece, CAAL hopes its thrice-weekly flights can undercut state-owned Aeronica, which charges...