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...secure the release of Aung San Suu Kyi. She alone has the moral stature to press for the end to authoritarian rule and to halt the political factionalism that brought the military to power 28 years ago. Like the Philippines' Corazon Aquino, Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto and Nicaragua's Violeta Chamorro, Aung San Suu Kyi's moral authority stems from family history and political tragedy: her father, Aung San, was a national hero who was assassinated in 1947, on the eve of Burma's independence from Britain. But unlike some of the others, who stepped into political vacuums only after...
...Salvador. The shipment was part of what the world would soon learn was a major infusion of arms designed to fuel the guerrillas' "final offensive" in November. Most of the cache had been manufactured in the Soviet Union, and the van's driver admitted having run munitions from Nicaragua to El Salvador on numerous occasions during 1989. "We knew about many previous shipments," says Aronson, "but this was a smoking gun." Summoned to the State Department, Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin was presented with a packet of evidence. Shevardnadze's Oct. 30 reply infuriated Baker. The minister rambled on about...
...Cubans, even though we just had a visit," said Shevardnadze, instructing his translator to emphasize very. Baker then sent an eyes-only cable to Shevardnadze listing "requests of the Soviet Union by the United States." Among them, he asked for a "Soviet commitment that all arms shipments from Nicaragua to the F.M.L.N. cease definitively and that no territory of Nicaragua be used by others to provide arms support for the F.M.L.N." Baker also asked that Gorbachev pressure Castro: We want a "Soviet commitment to reduce Cuban military and economic assistance as necessary to ensure that Cuba does not increase...
DEPARTING IS SUCH SWEET SORROW. Members of Violeta Chamorro's new government in Nicaragua keep finding little surprises bequeathed to them by the defeated Sandinistas. Some offices have been stripped of everything but the nails on which pictures once hung. The new Minister of Communications searched his premises in vain for accounting ledgers; he did discover a contract for the purchase of 22 new Toyotas, for $392,000, all apparently driven off by army members. The incoming mayor of Managua learned that $52,192.53 was distributed as bonuses to six employees, some of whom quit promptly when he took office...
Behind the Sandinistas' stunning election loss in Nicaragua is the secret story of U.S.-Soviet partnership in Central America. George Bush may lack Mikhail Gorbachev's grand vision, but he and his advisers proved their mastery of creative diplomacy...