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...presence of U.S. soldiers would be awkward for any South American country. The Bolivian government, already beleaguered by political opponents, was stung by local press reports that condemned the support from Washington. Overwhelmed by journalists' requests to go on a real raid, the government initially resisted because it feared that TV camera crews would zoom in on American G.I.s carrying machine guns...
...with another national official, Cuomo demanded and got a public retraction, dictated verbatim by the Governor himself. Sometimes Cuomo can be physically intimidating. Years ago, when then Governor Hugh Carey backed away from a promise to support him, Cuomo protested in person. He felt betrayed and said so angrily. Stung, Carey started to rise out of his chair. "Sit down, Hughie," warned Cuomo, "or I'll knock you right on your ass." Carey leaned back into the chair...
After two years, Cuomo sent out dozens of letters to top-drawer Manhattan law firms. A friend urged him in applying to use his more Anglicized middle name, Matthew, rather than Mario, advice he did not take. Cuomo was rejected by every firm. He was stung. He saw their response as a clear example of prejudice against Italian Americans, and it confirmed his sense of himself as an outsider. He took a job instead with a firm in Brooklyn and gravitated toward trial work. He loved the verbal jousting, the sweet certainty that preparation paid...
...Stung by the Western reporting, the Soviet media launched a week-long counterattack. Each limited disclosure about Chernobyl was followed by a shrill TASS account of nuclear problems in the U.S. and Europe. On Wednesday the Soviets went further. In a three-minute news brief carried on all three Moscow channels, an announcer lashed out at the foreign coverage. Said he: "Some news agencies in the West are spreading rumors that thousands of people allegedly perished during the accident at the atomic power station. It has already been reported that in reality two people died and only 197 were hospitalized...
...That stung the Sandinista leadership. It was a prescient observation. One of the government's first steps was to move in on a new church-sponsored group called the Justice and Peace Commission, whose aim was to defend human rights. Marta Patricia Baltodano, a lawyer and longtime human rights activist who helped organize the commission, asserts that she learned of a Sandinista plan to discredit her by forcing an accuser to claim falsely that she had engaged in sexual relations with a priest. Baltodano fled to exile in Costa Rica last December. "We realized we were not going...