Word: tunnermann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clampdown in Managua pushed already strained U.S.-Nicaraguan relations close to the breaking point. Declaring, "We are going to return the favor," President Reagan ordered the expulsion of Nicaraguan Ambassador Carlos Tunnermann and seven of his fellow diplomats. But the most potentially far- reaching U.S. response was a renewed drive for military aid for the contras. Though the issue was virtually dead before last week, Reagan pledged his support for a $47 million assistance package, introduced Wednesday by Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole, that includes $20 million for weapons and ammunition...
...hope that based on this vote we can move ahead with the Central American peace plan, end the war and fulfill in all good faith what the peace plan includes," said Ambassador Carlos Tunnermann...
...firmly established on Nicaraguan soil, Washington might recognize them as a provisional government-in-arms. Such a scenario, which would require the U.S. to break diplomatic relations with Nicaragua, has been rumored for the past two years. But the Sandinistas apparently are growing more worried. Two weeks ago Carlos Tunnermann, the capable Nicaraguan Ambassador to Washington, gave up that post to become his country's representative to the Organization of American States. Says one U.S. official: "They don't want to lose him, in case the embassy here gets shut down...
...negotiated. The Reagan Administration insists that Nicaragua must move away from totalitarianism to pluralism. Yet, as U.S. Ambassador Harry Bergold concedes, "We have to assume that Marxist-Leninists will not allow themselves to be voted out of power." Says Nicaragua's Ambassador to the U.S., Carlos Tunnermann Bernheim: "We are ready to negotiate all national-security concerns the U.S. has with us. We will allow no Soviet or American bases. We have said this repeatedly. But we will never negotiate the revolution...
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