Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each. But anti-Sandinistas who have close ties to the F.D.N. claim to have 16 battalions of 750 men each within Nicaragua. U.S. intelligence sources, while not disputing the fact that the rebels are active, consider their numbers to be grossly inflated. In the U.S. view, F.D.N. strength is probably closer...
Whatever their strength, the contras claim to have achieved a number of major, but unproved, triumphs over the past weeks, including the brief capture of some largely deserted northern and central Nicaraguan towns. They also say that they "control" (meaning, actually, that they enjoy freedom of movement in) an area covering the northern quarter of the country. The contras' campaign began to attract international attention when their clandestine radio station reported heavy fighting near the provincial center of Matagalpa, only 70 miles north of Managua...
...Mitterrand saw that as the moment to pounce. If the Communists were in the government, he reasoned, they would have to support his economic policies and keep their union members in line; in opposition, the Communists would be more likely to organize strikes and ultimately begin rebuilding their strength. Mitterrand's approach seems to have paid off: in the municipal elections two weeks ago, the Communists trailed far behind the Socialists and lost control of 15 cities. The party has also been hurt by growing disillusionment with its authoritarian structure and by its strong support for Moscow on many...
...signals that he is a farm hand. "Just 18 years old!" Lasorda exclaims. "See, we grow our own." It is a fact that the Dodgers have provided the National League's past four Rookies of the Year, and the candidate of the moment is Brock, who on the strength of 17 major-league at-bats has been handed Steve Garvey's old position. Indirectly, Marshall is replacing Third Baseman Ron Cey, Pedro Guerrero having transferred there from rightfield to make room for Marshall. Lasorda has told both newcomers, "When I replaced Walter Alston six years...
...Didion neither gets nor expects to get to the bottom of who is doing what to whom and why. She is clearly unsympathetic toward the Salvadoran government and skeptical about a U.S. policy that would polarize the region into extreme leftists and rightists. But Didion is no pundit. Her strength is in conveying atmosphere and her own sense of horror, although this is not always completely convincing. Seated one night on the porch of a restaurant with her writer husband, John Gregory Dunne, Didion notices a shadowy figure in a truck and a man with a rifle...