Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hansen seems to be a new kind of crisismonger, jetting to trouble spots, flaunting congressional credentials to gain access and then making his own bizarre foreign policy on TV film. An ultraconservative Republican member of the House Banking Committee, Hansen flew to Nicaragua a week before the fall of Anastasio Somoza and by his presence implied a support for Somoza that the U.S. Government was discouraging. Hansen also joined a mail campaign to encourage the American residents of the Panama Canal Zone to oppose the new treaty...
Pierce was neither strong nor vigorous, but he decided to sound that way for the sake of his image. He sent a warship to Nicaragua when a U.S. citizen was assaulted, then was shocked when the ship's captain leveled a village under British protection. Turning to Cuba next, Pierce inspired the Ostend Manifesto, which suggested that if Spain refused to sell the island, the U.S. would be justified in wresting it from Spain "if we possess the power." Spain refused to sell, and Pierce was left with only words. He did nothing...
...next five days, 20 more Salvadorans died in clashes among the many extremist political factions that have made civil strife a way of life in El Salvador (pop. 4.8 million). On one side are the leftist terrorist groups that seek to provoke a Nicaragua-style insurrection. On the other are the hit teams obedient to the country's ultraconservative elite. Standing helpless in the middle, unable to control either the notoriously brutal 12,000-man security forces or intransigent foes on the left and right, is the civilian-military junta that ousted President Carlos Humberto Romero only last month...
DIVORCED. Pyrotechnic Rock Star Mick Jagger, 35, leader of the Rolling Stones; and Bianca Jagger, 34, Nicaragua-born actress and disco habitue; after eight years of marriage, one daughter; in London. After 18 months of transatlantic legal fireworks and a failed attempt to move the case to Los Angeles, jet-setting Bianca was granted a divorce in 18 minutes on uncontested grounds of adultery...
...instead bought the argument of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Defense Secretary Harold Brown that the U.S. could not afford the downfall of Hassan, a prominent friend in the Third World. An unspoken but very real consideration: coming after the overthrow of U.S.-supported autocrats in Iran and Nicaragua, the loss of Hassan would be a major embarrassment to the President's re-election campaign...