Word: withering
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...worst outcome for the U.S. in Nicaragua would be that the contras would wither away as more and more rebels accepted a Sandinista amnesty, and that the Sandinistas would then repeal the few steps they have taken toward democracy. The U.S. would thus be left to deal with a Marxist dictatorship that had cemented itself in power. There is a real danger that by proposing military aid to the contras, which Congress is almost certain to refuse, and by holding out for pure democracy in Nicaragua, Reagan will isolate the U.S. from peace negotiations that are likely to go forward...
...most, however, leaving office under a cloud shadows all their days. Deaver has seen his staff of 18 wither to a secretary, a bookkeeper and an aide. He has shuttered his glossy offices in Washington and put his fancy furniture in storage...
...Weinberger who most explicitly raised the specter of eventually having to send in U.S. troops if the contras are allowed to wither away. "It will be a very expensive task," he told the House Armed Services Committee, "and will cost a great many lives." Although Reagan and Weinberger both emphasize that there currently are no plans to involve American forces, the Pentagon has already established a foothold in Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras, where U.S. troops have been conducting maneuvers since 1983. A $30 million network of air bases, intelligence posts, radar stations and other installations has been built, and last...
...like Medicare leaving South Africa far behind. They've begun setting up individual retirement accounts, buying extrastrength Polident, developing varicose veins and taking Doan's pills. Some--those four protesters who were to have graduated some time long, long ago--are sitting home in rocking chairs as their diplomas wither and yellow back in University Hall...
...seven days of testimony, during which five witnesses were called, the Nicaraguan legal team, which also includes a Briton, a Frenchman, a Nicaraguan attorney and Managua's Ambassador to the Netherlands, attempted to prove that the contras were a creation of the U.S. and would wither away without Washington's funding. In an affidavit, former Contra Leader Edgar Chamorro claimed that the rebels were practicing terrorism against civilian populations as a conscious policy. He alleged that the political and military activities of the rebel Nicaraguan Democratic Force, which he left last year, "were directed and controlled by the CIA." Chamorro...