Playbill
September, 1983
According to the Reagan Administration, Central America is menaced by a creeping tide of communism that threatens to spread all the way to Mexico. In citing what he sees as a dangerous trend, President Reagan often singles out Nicaragua, where, in the summer of 1979, the revolutionary Sandinista front seized power from dictator Anastasio Somoza, whose family had ruled the country for 42 years. Is the Sandinista leadership really as hostile to the U. S. as some Government officials say it is? We...
