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...begin fighting again without losing the $14 million. In Managua's view, the U.S. "humanitarian" support would let the contras spend more of their own funds on weapons. At week's end, the government formally rejected the plan in a note to Washington. Contended Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann: "What President Reagan has said is, 'You drop dead, or I will kill...
...such maneuvers were necessary last month when Rome issued the suspension order to Cardenal and the three other rebellious political priests in Nicaragua: Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Culture Minister Ernesto Cardenal Martinez, and Edgard Parrales, Ambassador to the Organization of American States. In the Vatican's view it was merely a question of enforcing canon...
...that forbids priests to hold posts that carry civil powers. In a 19-page open letter, Cardenal defended his job as a "pact with the poor." There was no word from the Vatican on the three other priests in the Nicaraguan government, including Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann...
DISCUSSING THE MIG "crisis" on the November 7th edition of "Nightline," Nicaragua's foreign minister Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann gracefully exposed the biases behind Ted Koppel's questions, and in doing so laid bare the shameful subjectivity of one of America's most influential opinion makers. If such closed mindedness could be attributed only to Koppel, there would be no need to write this commentary. Unfortunately the ABC commentator's one-sided view of the Nicaraguan "problem" permeates the electronic media...
...priests, including Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann and Culture Minister Ernesto Cardenal Martinez (at whom the Pope shook his finger in reproach during his 1983 visit to Nicaragua), struck a compromise with their church superiors in 1981 by agreeing not to say Mass or perform religious functions while holding their government posts...