Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shultz declared that Nicaragua could become "a Soviet and Cuban base on the mainland of Latin America, a regime whose consolidated power will allow it to spread subversion and terrorism throughout the hemisphere." Nevertheless, he offered a rational, carefully worded definition of the Administration's goals: "We want the Nicaraguan regime to reverse its military buildup, to send its foreign advisers home, and to stop oppressing its citizens and subverting its neighbors...
...million network of air bases, intelligence posts, radar stations and other installations has been built, and last week 96 engineers from the Fort Bragg, N.C.-based 82nd Airborne Division parachuted into Honduras to begin work on a 4,700-ft. runway within 25 miles of the Nicaraguan border...
...Administration's objective and the instruments available, reminiscent of our ill-fated adventure in Lebanon," James Schlesinger, Defense Secretary under Gerald Ford, told TIME last week. "Mere dislike of the Sandinistas is not an - adequate basis for policy." Schlesinger contends that the rebels are no equal for the Nicaraguan army. "To define the American interest as that of the contras is to identify with a losing cause," says he. "To suggest that money for--and victory of--the contras is the only way to avoid introducing American troops is to come close to committing us to the introduction...
Patrick J. Buchanan, White House director of communications and resident ideologue, is chief architect of the President's strategy of pugnacious confrontation with Congress on aid to the Nicaraguan rebels. Reagan's decision to make a slam-bam push for contra aid was widely regarded in the capital as a personal victory for the tenacious Buchanan, who lately has been on something of a roll. If the contra aid strategy succeeds, Buchanan's ascendancy may signal as well a fundamental shift in the way the White House does business --from political pragmatism and compromise to ideological purity and contentiousness...
...contras operated across almost a third of Nicaragua, their campaign underwritten by U.S. aid. Today, crippled in part by Congress's < fickle approach to supplying aid, only some 4,000 remain in Nicaragua; the rest have been forced by a vigorous Sandinista counteroffensive to retreat across the border. Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra has said that the contras have "totally lost the initiative." For once, the American military seems to agree with the Sandinistas. Admits General John Galvin, commander of the U.S. Southern Command: "They need training, they need advice in terms of strategy, tactics and senior leadership. Their...