Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judged "not ready" to face the press. Finally, there was a young Nicaraguan soldier who was produced by the State Department but then promptly repudiated his previous statements about being trained in Cuba and Ethiopia and having been sent into El Salvador by his government. The U.S. did have solid evidence of a major military buildup in Nicaragua, and former high national security officials were persuaded by still secret intelligence that the Sandinistas were helping the El Salvador rebels. Nonetheless, the blunders and bad luck over the live witnesses to that subversion greatly undermined the Administration's plausibility...
...most solid evidence the U.S. has about events in Central America comes from IMINT (image intelligence). The photographs of airfields and military encampments in Nicaragua were taken by SR-71 Lockheed reconnaissance planes, so-called Blackbirds, that are capable of flying higher than 80,000 ft. and at speeds of more than 2,000 m.p.h., as well as by U.S. satellites orbiting more than 100 miles above the earth. The U.S. has also relied on electronic eavesdropping to pick up radio communications between rebel forces in El Salvador and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; one key U.S. listening post...
...apparent power it still retains, seems to be losing in the struggle to retain the loyalty of the people. Many Salvadorans are preparing to follow whichever side ultimately wins out. Nor does there seem to be much enthusiasm about the March 28 election, which Washington hopes will produce a solid majority for President José Napoleón Duarte's moderate Christian Democrats. A veteran politician who returned from exile and joined the junta, Duarte is essential to the political solution that U.S. policymakers are banking on. Even if the guerrillas do not succeed in disrupting the balloting, the results could...
...line of Ward, Vicki Palmer and leading scorer Dianne Hurley started terrorizing opposing goalies, the corps of blueliners played stellar defense, consistently riding attacking forwards off the puck, and sophomore goalie Cheryl Tate turned in a string of solid, often superb performances, particularly in her Beanpot wins...
...season were nothing short of amazing. A squad in only its fourth year of varsity status, which had never risen above a 7-12 record, complied a mark of 15-6, finished second in the Ivy tournament and won its first-ever Beanpot. After getting off to a solid (6-3 by reading period), the Crimson dropped two close contests just before exams, then went on a tear in February, mowing down nine straight opponents before bowing to the Tigers...