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Skillful manipulation by the Reagan administration is one reason. Its efforts to paint the insurgents as pro-Soviet, Cuban-sponsored Marxist-Leninists met with some success in the early months of 1981. The State Department White Paper of February 23, 1981, for example--an authoritative-sounding treatise based on a confusing and contradictory pile of "captured documents," for instance--went unchallenged by the press for almost three months until John Dinges of the tiny Pacific News Service published a masterful demolition of their content and conclusions. Though readers of the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal had a chance...
...basis of that Sandinista position is evident enough: stubbornness, a condition that Washington's statements have only helped deepen. Still, the stridently pro-Cuban and pro-Soviet policies of the directorate are not at all what most Nicaraguans had in mind when they welcomed the conquering guerrillas into power in 1979. Ever since then, the Sandinistas have been trying to impose some form of one-party, Marxist-Leninist rule on the country, while pluralistic forces, especially the private business community, are trying to retain free speech, a free press and the right to free assembly...
...much weight should be given to these Saudi statements is problematic. The Saudis have no diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R. and have often denounced Communism as "godless." They may merely be trying to win a consensus in favor of the Fahd plan from pro-Soviet states at an Arab summit scheduled to convene in Fez, Morocco, on Nov. 25. Says one European diplomat in Beirut: "The Saudis want Syrian and, if possible, Libyan support, and they want Washington to realize that America is not running the only game in town. So even though they still fear the Soviets, they find...
Karmal, 52, is a revolutionary of un abashedly pro-Soviet leanings. In the mid-'60s he formed a faction of the People's Democratic [Communist] Party that hewed closely to Moscow's line. After the 1978 coup that brought rivals in a more in dependent party faction to power, he was sent off into diplomatic exile as Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. In December 1979, when the Soviets invaded and killed his predecessor, Hafizullah Amin, Karmal emerged as the new leader...
Prune Minister Sultan Ali Keshtmand, 47, is the No. 2 man in the regime, having recently taken over the prime ministership from Karmal. He is a longtime Communist and a mem ber of the pro-Soviet faction that gained dominance after the invasion...