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Cambridge District Court Judge Arthur Sherman yesterday set a date for the jury trial of a protester who disrupted a former contra leader's speech at the Law School last October...
...president, in a letter to pro-Contra forces sent while he was attending a meeting of Western allies in Brussels, Belgium, said Wright's plan "does not meet the essential criteria" of keeping the Contras viable and maintaining military pressure on the leftist Sandinista government...
President Daniel Ortega Saavedra attributes such hardships to U.S. sanctions and the American-backed contra insurgency. In recent months, however, increasing numbers of Ortega's long-suffering countrymen are blaming their predicament not on outside aggression but on the Sandinistas. Says Carlos Huembes, president of a coalition of anti-Sandinista groups known as the Democratic Coordinator: "People are losing their patience, and people are losing their fear...
Such defiant sentiments seem to be spreading among Nicaragua's citizens. Three weeks ago, the Sandinista leadership was heartened when Congress cut off new aid to the contras. But contra-Sandinista talks were suspended late last week with no agreement, and most Nicaraguans no longer believe the country is headed toward peace and prosperity. The Sandinistas may have won a political battle on Capitol Hill, but back home they risk losing the war for hearts, minds -- and bellies...
Reagan also issued a fresh call for aid to the contra rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government, and said the Soviet Union had doubled military assistance for the leftist regime in the first two months of this year over 1987 levels...