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...rebel leadership is no longer successful even at sticking together. Two of the contra directors, Arturo Cruz and Alfonso Robelo, have threatened to quit the U.S.-sponsored United Nicaraguan Opposition because of their differences with Adolfo Calero, head of the largest and best-armed contra organization, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force. Cruz and Robelo say Calero has ignored them and undercut their attempts to democratize the movement. Cruz recently told TIME that the UNO chiefs were not "spokesmen for the people" but rather a "cluster of bickering leaders." In Costa Rica, Robelo reportedly told U.S. officials that he would resign unless...
...schism among the contras is aggravated by a rift between the State Department and the CIA. State, convinced that the contras need civilian leadership to develop political and diplomatic support, forced Calero to accept the UNO power-sharing arrangement. The CIA, however, has indulged Calero's backhanded treatment of the UNO. "The CIA thinks the key to everything is the battlefield," says a State Department official. "In their view, if the contras start winning, the political and diplomatic support will follow." Contra supporters may wince at Calero's authoritarian tactics but they are unlikely to abandon him. Says a State...
...struggle to fill their notebooks with anything more than rumor or innuendo. They follow a well- trodden path to the contra offices in a sprawling bungalow on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa. The spokesperson is charming but uninformative. On a good day, a journalist might run into Contra Leaders Adolfo Calero or Enrique Bermudez, but they are not always forthcoming...
...Adolfo Calero, head of the 10,000-member Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the largest contra group, insists that his forces have received little if any of the funds and strongly denies any knowledge of Swiss bank accounts. A senior U.S. Administration official agrees. "There were no such large infusions of cash," he says. "The contras were constantly short of things. No question they were hurting...
...medical supplies. (The $27 million in humanitarian aid that lawmakers agreed to last year as part of a reluctant compromise expires at the end of the month.) To kick off the effort, Reagan met with three leaders of the Unified Nicaraguan Opposition, Arturo Cruz, Alfonso Robelo and Adolfo Calero. He made a tough speech to Jewish leaders gathered at the White House, and scheduled a television address for this coming Sunday. The issue was publicly cast by the President, and more strongly by his top advisers, in us-or-them terms, with a blunt accusation that those who oppose aiding...