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...revolutionary solidarity, Yasser Arafat last week opened the new mission of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. By giving the P.L.O. its first diplomatic representation in Central America, the Sandinistas were in a sense repaying Arafat for having supported their struggle against former Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza. Throughout the weeklong celebrations marking the first anniversary of the Sandinista victory, the P.L.O. leader was given an enthusiastic reception. Everywhere he turned in Managua, he found his grinning face plastered on posters and T shirts along with the slogan: "The people of Palestine reclaim their country...
Simultaneously, the IMF has not hesitated to use its resources in the political sphere. In June 1979, the IMF granted a $34 million loan to Anastasio Somoza's government in Nicaragua to aid his resistence to Sandinistan insurgents. The U.S. voted in favor of the loan. Somoza fled Nicaragua seven weeks later, looting the treasury as he left. At last report the IMF was trying to collect the loan--from the Sandinista government...
LATIN AMERICA. East German largesse has been concentrated on Nicaragua, where the revolution last year provided an obvious target of political opportunity. Barely a week after Dictator Anastasio Somoza had fled the country, East German medical and economic assistance teams were in Managua establishing an early foothold. As one East German doctor admitted at the time: "We do not leave political considerations aside." Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto has called the GDR a "natural ally" of the Sandinista revolution, and last month a high-ranking delegation from Managua spent several days in East Berlin to sign a series...
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...
...images of Scotto have clashed in a federal courtroom in Manhattan where he was tried on 44 counts of accepting illegal payoffs, evading income taxes and racketeering. Last week, after deliberating for five days, the jury found Scotto guilty on 33 of the charges. Convicted with him was Anthony Anastasio, executive vice president of Local...