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...nature of the Communist system (that is, a country any country ruled by a I Leninist Party)" is useful as a reminder of what happened to those who were shouting "Two, three many Vietnams" in 1969 Come 1990. We don't want to have to be explaining away some Sandinista atrocity or another there is very little in past history to give much credence to the dream that any of the current revolutions will produce a kind and pure worker's state entirely free of the defects that mar the rest of the socialist encampment...
...likely that El Salvador, should the revolution prevail, will be ruled by a L. Leninist party (especially if the U.S. continues its carefully concerted plan to drive the rebels into the arms of Moscow). Still Sontag says she "passionately supports" their cause, and so should the rest of us. Sandinista Nicaragua is no waystation on the road to nirvana: still and all, there are considerably fewer deaths-by-government-violence, and considerably more well-fed citizens (both certifiably good things), than in Somoza Nicaragua. The problem with announcing that communism is fascism and then sitting down is that capitalism...
...attempt to destabilize the Sandinista regime--frighteningly reminiscent of the Bay of Pigsfiasco--is just the latest in a series of U.S. foreign policy blunders in Central America that are both morally repugnant and practically ineffective. But it adds insult to injury in the form of hypocrisy. We must lower the standards we set for other nations or live up to them ourselves...
Haig was misled. The picture in Le Figaro was actually taken more than three years ago, during the Sandinistas' successful rebellion against Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, and showed bodies being burned by the Red Cross as a sanitation measure after an attack by Somoza's National Guard. Le Figaro admitted that its picture had been incorrectly captioned. The State Department insisted, however, that U.S. charges of Sandinista repression were correct. The Nicaraguans denied the claim, but TIME has independently verified that killings and forced reset dements have occurred...
...revolution in Nicaragua was settled by negotiations in 1979 in which the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas, who had driven Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle into exile, agreed to share power with the moderates. But from the beginning the pluralism failed. The government and, crucially, the army were dominated by the Sandinistas. Moderates were forced out of office, or quit in frustration. Says a ranking military analyst: "Only the Sandinistas came out on top. If I had the least hope that a negotiated settlement would produce a tolerable government [in El Salvador], I'd want to help them...