Word: warred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout the primaries, Dukakis talked incessantly of the marathon, a race that goes to the steady, not the swift. He knew that an even gait and a great fund raiser would allow him to outlast the six other dwarfs and survive the Democratic wars of attrition. But the general election was a war of collision, not attrition. Toward the end, a disoriented Dukakis admitted that he failed to realize that the primaries are nothing like the frenzied finale. The vaunted marathoner proved to be a man too late with his sprint...
Among the biggest losers have been the people of Nicaragua. Those who have survived the war against the U.S.-backed contras are losing the battle for daily survival. Economic growth has been less than zero during the past two years. In January, with inflation running at nearly 1,500%, the cordoba was pegged at a rate of 10 for each U.S. dollar; today the rate is 1,600 to $1. In Managua outdoor markets are bordered by garbage mounds where malnourished scavengers pick through the debris in search of food. Stagnant waters have become a breeding ground for dengue fever...
...this does not even begin to address the toll of a war that, by Managua's count, has taken 28,547 lives. The Nicaraguan government is asking the U.S. for $12.2 billion in reparations, 25% of which would cover what they call "moral damages." But who is going to assess damages against the Sandinistas for their own incompetence and chronic mismanagement? Since 1979 the Sandinistas' most salient achievements have been to consolidate their power, build a formidable military machine and suppress dissent. While the Sandinistas claim they could triumph in any election, Nicaraguans are voting otherwise with their feet. More...
...refugee camps. Now newcomers who are caught are forcibly returned. Hondurans, with an unemployment rate of about 40%, insist they cannot accommodate this job-hungry tide of dispossessed Nicaraguans. With 12,000 armed contras sitting in Honduran base camps, some Hondurans feel the U.S. has dragged them into a war that they never chose to fight. Though Washington understandably becomes annoyed when officials in Honduras and other Central American countries privately implore the U.S. to act tough with the Sandinistas but offer little public support, it is these countries that must live with the consequences of U.S. policies. Last month...
...Salvador a bitter civil war is in its ninth year, and the leftist guerrillas are stepping up their assaults on military and economic targets. Last March voters gave control of the legislative assembly to the ultraconservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), which has been linked in the past to death-squad activity. In presidential elections next March, ARENA is expected to defeat the moderate Christian Democrats, currently headed by President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who is dying of cancer. The new government, backed by a reshuffled military, can be expected to move more aggressively against the guerrillas, which will probably mean...