Word: nicaraguan
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...Jolla, Director Robert Woodruff and Translator Roger Downey added evocations of Imelda Marcos and of assassinated Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza: a suitcase filled with shoes and black brassieres, Latin-style music pulsing along a castle wall painted with austere political slogans. But rather than a satire, the production was a dreamlike allegory about the corruption of all plutocrats and of all firebrands. Woodruff and Set Designer Douglas Stein offered dazzling visual imagery, from a demented New Year's Eve ball to a row of garret apartments that appeared, suffused with golden light, halfway up the back wall of the stage...
With its $100 million aid package for Nicaraguan rebels all but in hand, the Administration had some cause to suppose it could get on with it and prepare the rebels to do serious battle with the Sandinista regime. Yet the Senate's debate on the aid measure had hardly subsided when Administration officials began wondering when, and just where, they could begin getting the contras into fighting trim...
...drew near for a House vote on aid to the Nicaraguan contras, the Heritage Foundation massed its forces on behalf of the rebel troops. In its snug maroon auditorium just a few blocks from the Capitol, it held an all-day seminar for congressional staffers. The guests of honor: two top contra officers and a Nicaraguan opposition journalist. A week later Heritage issued a brisk nine-page report titled Nicaragua's Terrorist Connection, copies of which were distributed by hand to all Congressmen and to targeted staff members. Heritage's pro-contra blitz was on. The reign of the pensive...
...potent appeal of each was on display last week. Jackson, 44, gave an uncompromising keynote at the annual convention of Operation PUSH, the civil rights group he founded 15 years ago, a day after playing host at a dinner for Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Robertson proved in Tuesday's Michigan primaries that he can turn his faithful flock into grass-roots political organizers and then headed off to Iowa, where the first real presidential caucus will be held almost 18 months from now. In the long run Jackson is likely to wield more clout. One reason: he can make...
...unchanged from 1984. But, like Robertson, he is seeking to take a stand on everything. In a speech last week he pledged to "study and master Soviet-American relations." His positions in many cases are the exact reverse of Robertson's. While Robertson advocates that the U.S. recognize the Nicaraguan contras as a government in exile, Jackson invited the Sandinista leader to dinner at his home in Chicago and some "backyard diplomacy" under a basketball hoop. Earlier, Jackson participated in drafting a statement that Ortega read to a PUSH meeting, pledging efforts to ease friction with both the Roman Catholic...