Word: quainton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once a week between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m., about 30 Americans gather outside the U.S. embassy to wave placards, chant and sing. One popular new song: "Don't rescue me, I want to be free." U.S. Ambassador Anthony Quainton tries to receive every delegation that passes through to "answer their questions...
...anxiety. The successful invasion of the flyspeck island of Grenada, they insisted, provided no precedent for an offensive against Nicaragua's well-armed and well-trained combined regular army and militia force of 100,000. "The fears of the government are exaggerated," insisted U.S. Ambassador Anthony Quainton in Managua. "You have to understand that Grenada and Nicaragua are completely different countries and situations." Said a State Department official in Washington: "It's a terrible idea. It's impractical and impolitic. It's also absolutely unnecessary...
Meanwhile, a more important diplomatic move was getting under way in Central America. U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua Anthony Quainton opened new negotiations in Managua aimed at getting the Nicaraguans to pledge that they will stop supporting insurrections in neighboring countries-namely, El Salvador. In return the U.S. is willing to make a "political declaration" that it will crack down on Nicaraguan exiles said to be plotting counterrevolution from American soil and will even let Nicaragua participate in the trade and investment benefits of the Caribbean Basin Initiative. What will come of the talks is uncertain, but the very fact that...
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