Word: sandinistas
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...weeks, Secretary of State Alexander Haig, White House Counsellor Edwin Meese and other senior U.S. officials have been issuing a series of increasingly bellicose warnings about the behavior of Nicaragua's Marxist Sandinista government. The U.S. is concerned about what Haig calls the "drift toward totalitarianism" of the Nicaraguan regime, the presence of some 1,500 Cuban military advisers in the country and the role of Nicaragua in supporting the left-wing guerrillas in El Salvador. Haig is also irked by Nicaragua's own heavy arms buildup, which he believes is sponsored by Cuba and the Soviet Union...
There is no ignoring Nicaragua's military buildup. The Sandinista arsenal now includes some 30 Soviet tanks, and the Reagan Administration suspects that MiG-21 aircraft may soon be shipped to Nicaragua, giving that country clear air superiority over its neighbors. On the ground, Nicaraguan military strength is already well established; the Sandinista army of 26,000 is at least twice the size of any other in Central America. In addition, Nicaragua has a "ready reserve" force...
...country was "a feudal estate encumbered by the owners with a mortgage." Teaching people three, four and five times his age to write and read, an 11-year-old boy--one of 120,000 brigadistas in the nation's literacy campaign--recites to his pupils lessons like: "The Sandinista Front guards against Yankee imperialism." Along the highways, there are those insipid billboards--the smiling workers with strong shoulders and full faces, who sell only happiness and, by inference, obedience. The crudity of the symbols causes a little shudder. They seem so familiar, and they should, since they mark every...
...corner. It's in the wake of the parties that Sandino, Now and Forever, takes up this story. Faced with an enormous debt, a treasury that's been relocated to Miami Beach, unemployment near 50 per cent, and continued military threats from as far away as Washington, D.C., the Sandinistas must rebuild Nicaragua. They do not follow the approved revolutionary path, killing all the National Guardsmen and forcibly converting the economy so they may plunder it. Instead, the executions are limited, as are the jailings of political opponents; dissent within limits is allowed; some attempt is made to include...
...Each person on their own has a different, although similar, way of getting ready for a game," he says. "When we're at home, Friday night I'll do my wash--it's usually time by then--come home, play certain albums (including the Clash's London Calling and Sandinista!, or some Stones), and meditate on what's going to happen the next afternoon...