Word: somoza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nicaraguan contras are hardly idealists to be admired. Most seek only to regain the power they wielded during the Somoza dictatorship. That regime masqueraded as a democracy just to retain U.S. support, while suppressing the very freedoms we now demand that the Sandinistas introduce...
...receiving Israeli arms, albeit indirectly and in small doses. Israel's motive in helping the contras would not be just to curry favor with the U.S. but to strike a blow against the Palestine Liberation Organization, which helped train the Sandinistas before they overthrew the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979. During a 1980 visit to Managua, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat declared to the Sandinistas that "the links between us are not new . . . Your enemies are our enemies...
...have unfortunate social consequences. Nations which have followed the agricultural product or raw-material based path that he advocates have often found themselves with repressive political systems needed to maintain societies in which there are few rich and many poor. Overly careful adherence to Adam Smith often Produces Anastasia Somoza...
...move first against Nicaragua; indeed, it gave the Sandinistas $75 million in economic aid the year after the 1979 overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, which the U.S. implicitly encouraged. But Nicaragua joined with the Soviets and Cubans to preach Marxist-Leninist revolution through the region. Even the Democratic-controlled House Intelligence Committee found last year that the Salvadoran "insurgency depends for its lifeblood-arms, ammunition, financing, logistics and command-and-con-trol facilities-upon outside assistance from Nicaragua and Cuba." The crucial question is how far the Administration intends to go with its support of the contras. Its original...
...have the real thing in mind. Minnesota's Albert Williams (who opened the season, and lost, for the Twins last week) is the only known former Sandinista guerrilla in the major leagues. Back in 1977, when the Nicaraguan-born athlete was in the Pittsburgh Pirates farm system, the Somoza government declined to renew his visa. As a Twins guidebook laconically puts it, "This prompted Al to sign up with the Sandinista National Liberation Front guerrillas, and he was engaged in jungle fighting against the forces of Anastasio Somoza for the next 16 months." Williams confirms it all but politely...