Word: fuerza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only a few months ago the early successes of the spring offensive launched by the U.S.-backed commando army of the Fuerza Democrática Nicaraguense (F.D.N.) seemed to spell serious trouble for the Marxist-led Sandinista government in Nicaragua. The counterrevolutionaries, or contras, had managed by April to establish advance positions only 70 miles from the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. As a result, some officials in the Reagan Administration were predicting that the contras would have one-third of Nicaragua under their control by the end of the year, thereby testing the Sandinista government's ability to survive...
...occasion had an artificially mysterious air about it. Two weeks ago, telephone calls were placed to journalists from New York City to Caracas urging them to dial a Miami number for information about an upcoming meeting on U.S. soil of the Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense (F.D.N.), a coalition of Nicaraguan exile groups that are opposed to the leftist Sandinista regime in Managua. When leaders of the F.D.N. showed up at a Fort Lauderdale resort hotel last week, the conclave turned out to be about as clandestine as a charity clambake. The real purpose of the get-together...
...attacks inside Nicaragua. The Somocistas, as they were known, were demoralized and poorly organized. The U.S. set about forcing the various factions to unite under a central command, while the CIA began recruiting students, farmers and other civilians to beef up the force. Then, early this year, the Fuerza Democratica Nicaragiiense (F.D.N.) was established to serve as a respectable political front group for the contras. Though the Guardsmen supposedly do not hold leadership positions in the F.D.N., they do, in fact, run some military operations...
...your article on Spain [March 24], you say that the neofascist movement Fuerza Nueva received 350,000 votes, or "a mere .02%," in the national election last year. If true, it would mean that the Spanish electorate consisted of 1.75 billion people, or substantially more people than in the People's Republic of China. Are there really that many Spaniards...
...ominous symptom of malaise is the growing visibility of a neofascist movement called the Fuerza Nueva (New Force). The party, led by a wealthy Madrid lawyer named Bias Piñar, 62, attracts alienated youth from some of Madrid's best families, who mix with a cadre of thugs and shadowy political operatives adept at exploiting a residual streak of nostalgia for the Franco era. Fuerza Nueva captured 350,000 votes-a mere .02%-in last year's national election. But the ultrarightists attract disproportionate attention with fiery street rallies and attacks, with iron bars and bicycle chains...