Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...support for the Sandinistas, once a small group of only 200 revolutionary insurgents, now at the vanguard of the anti-Somoza movement with a combat force of over 1000 and widespread popular approval, especially in the poverty-stricken countryside. But regardless of their popularity, the FSLN can never succeed with a purely military approach. The strength of Somoza's power derives from his control of the 7500-member Guardia National, a combination army and secret police force trained and equipped by the U.S. The campesinosand slum-dwellers of Managua have no weapons to combat this counter-insurgent force; and their...
...proposals with relief from federal regulation and more liberalized credit. Neither the Agriculture Department's nor the Bureau's suggestions would solve the farmers' problem, though. The farmers don't want to see parity evolve on its own. The evolution would be too time-consuming, and would not necessarily succeed. Instead, they want parity immediately--and they plan...
...because he continues to insist on a comprehensive settlement. They are clearly afraid that, despite the countless obstacles, Sadat will somehow pull off a settlement." Having gambled that he will fail, the anti-Sadat Arabs have not yet decided what they will do if, by chance, he should succeed...
...control choke points along the tanker routes that carry oil to Western markets. The Saudi rulers and the Shah of Iran share concern that the Kremlin might resort to force to secure new supplies. For all parties concerned. the best solution by far would be for the Soviets to succeed brilliantly in their Arctic efforts...
...Administration ran into another bit of trouble in Congress last week when the Senate Banking Committee unexpectedly delayed confirmation of G. William Miller, chief of Textron Inc., to succeed Arthur Burns as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. The reason: to give the committee time to investigate an assertion by Chairman William Proxmire that a Textron subsidiary, Bell Helicopter, made a $2.9 million payment to an Iranian sales agency, Air Taxi, that was secretly owned by General Mohammed Khatemi, the Shah's brother-in-law and commander of the Iranian air force (he died in 1975). Miller denies that...