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...advise the Nicaraguan forces," a number that is confirmed by U.S. intelligence reports. Sandinista officials claim that Nicaragua has only 800 noncombatant Cuban advisers. Reagan also repeated earlier Administration allegations that the Sandinistas had armed the M-19 guerrillas who stormed Bogota's Palace of Justice last month. Both Colombia's Foreign Minister and Sandinista leaders denied the charge. U.S. intelli
gence officials, however, contended last week that guns retrieved from the palace bore serial numbers that identified them as part of a shipment that moved from North Viet Nam via Cuba to Nicaragua and on to Colombia...
...push toward violence." Neither, he said, does it "assume or justify Marxist ideology" or "break with Catholic theological tradition." To him, the movement is "indispensable to the church's activity and to the social commitment of Christians, even if it carries with it risks." A contrary view came from Colombia's Bishop Dario Castrillon Hoyos, secretary- general of the Latin American bishops' conference. By embracing hate and violence, he warned, "some lines of liberation theology have generated some very sorrowful and very sad fruit...
According to Lisa Salerno, director of development at Americares, "Melendez made the road smooth for us in Colombia...
Melendez-Ortiz is now working on getting aid to Colombia for what he calls a "pre-emergency plan," because he says the American State Department is "pretty sure that another explosion will take place within the next week...