Word: supportiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter decided to charge back into the national consciousness, said the aide, figuring that "a challenge like energy can be used to pull ourselves together"?both as an Administration and as a nation. The first step was taken Sunday night, when Carter acknowledged the problems and appealed for support. But Carter almost surely misjudged the next step...
...preparation for his campaign, Brown has lately increased his overtures to his party's left wing, most of which op posed his support this year of a constitutional convention to write a budget-balancing amendment. Brown has been emphasizing his opposition to nuclear power, and now appears frequently with Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda, two leading activists. Explains one Brown aide: "Jerry has no national constituency, so Hayden and Fonda have offered him a connection to the antiwar, antinuclear crowd, and he's taken...
...that pledge. To back up that guarantee, the junta also agreed to a proposal originated by Washington's special envoy, William Bowdler, that the Organization of American States would be invited to monitor the protection of human rights. Satisfied with the junta's promises, Washington pledged to support the new regime. Said Bowdler: "You are now the government of Nicaragua...
Facing the harsh reality that he had lost American support, Somoza placed all his high-ranking Guardia officers with 30 years or more service on the retirement list. That step allowed them to immediately abandon their commands and seek refuge in the U.S. or elsewhere in Latin America. As Somoza's officers planned their getaways, Nicaraguan Congressmen who had been confined in Managua's Intercontinental Hotel grew increasingly panicky. Finally, they were called into a post-midnight session. They unanimously accepted Somoza's resignation and conferred the blue-and-white sash, symbolic of the presidency...
...then, Urcuyo had doubtless realized that his scheme had been a big mistake. Abandoned by the leader whose cause they had supported for so long, the national guard began to disintegrate. In a matter of hours, every one of Somoza's pilots, who had mercilessly bombed and strafed the barrios where the Sandinistas had their greatest support, had defected to neighboring countries. Soon Urcuyo flew to Guatemala and asked for asylum...