Word: totalitarian
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...Sandinista regime. What happened there was a hijacking. The people of Nicaragua set out to get rid of a, certainly you could not call it a totalitarian government, but an authoritarian government: the Somoza dictatorship. The revolutionaries appealed to the Organization of American States and said, "Would you ask Somoza to step down so we can end the killing?" The OAS asked them, "What are your revolutionary goals?" They told them democracy, pluralistic society, free trade, freedom of religion. But among the revolutionaries there was an organization that had existed before the revolution--the Sandinistas, a Communist organization...
...diplomacy. We've made ten attempts to negotiate with them. But when have we ever seen a Communist totalitarian government voluntarily give up their power and say, "Well, O.K., we want to have more democracy"? We haven't. Diplomacy must have behind it strength. The Sandinistas are not going to agree to all the things that Contadora has been asking of them unless they feel the pressure of the contras...
...Daniel Ortega's comment that Reagan is not rational. I don't find him very rational. Well, he's rational in his belief, and that is he is a dyed-in-the- wool believer in the totalitarian Marxist government, which...
...government-hosted "Face the People" forums, citizens bellyache about everything from food shortages to the draft without fear of reprisal. Moreover, the country has an array of political parties, church groups and civic organizations from which to choose. In comparison with many East bloc countries, Nicaragua is not the "totalitarian camp" of which President Reagan speaks...
...CAME TO CHILE with a test in mind: Jeane Kirkpatrick's famous authoritarian/totalitarian distinction. This Administration lends military and economic aid to the junta in Chile on the theory that authoritarian governments are "better" than totalitarian ones--that, right-wing rulers are less pervasively repressive than those of the left, more culturally tolerant, less ideological, more amenable to corporate interests, and more susceptible to change. Therefore, the argument continues, to prop up right-wing repressive governments not only protects American interests--in Chile, that means ITT--but also prevents the country from going Red, presumably foreclosing any future hope...