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Ortega and the Sandinista revolution came of age together. Daniel, the eldest of five children, was born in 1945 in the northern town of La Libertad. His father, a small businessman, was an avid supporter of the guerrilla forces of the legendary Augusto Cesar Sandino, who was killed by the dictatorship's National Guard. Both father and mother were imprisoned under the first Somoza regime, and Daniel was jailed for his activism at the age of 15. His younger brother Camilo was killed in 1978 during the Nicaraguan revolution, and another brother, Humberto, fought side by side with Daniel until...
...Daniel Ortega is often called shy, soft-spoken, retiring: "the reluctant ruler." Not Murillo. The First Lady maintains the kind of profile that goes with $300 glasses. A darling of the radical chic, the articulate, outspoken Murillo counts Bianca Jagger (also a Nicaraguan) and Harry Belafonte among her friends. In New York City for January's large international writers' congress, Murillo was escorted by Little Steven Van Zandt, a rock songwriter who produced the antiapartheid anthem Sun City. She had planned to attend an antidrug seminar in Atlanta last week at which Nancy Reagan was hostess, but did not obtain...
...Daniel is a simple man who doesn't like pretension," said a close Ortega adviser. When he visited New York City last fall to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the United Nations, Ortega kept to his usual running schedule and took an early-morning jog through Central Park. He generally runs from five to six miles a day. For dinner, he sought out local Chinese restaurants...
...Hemisphere, a potential Soviet "beachhead" in North America, a haven for dope smugglers and terrorists. The country is in the grip of "an outlaw regime" of Marxist-Leninists who torture pastors and burn down synagogues. Left to fester, Reagan warned the nation last week, the Nicaragua of Sandinista Leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra will become a "second Cuba"--worse, a "second Libya, right on the doorstep of the United States...
...Namphy government decides to hold elections, there will be no dearth of potential leaders. Ex-President Daniel Fignole has returned to Haiti, after living for almost 29 years in New York City, as have leaders of the hitherto outlawed Communist and Socialist parties. Colonel Octave Cayard, who in 1970 led a failed coast guard mutiny against the Duvaliers, also arrived earlier this month. The church-run Radio Soleil has counseled Haitians to be patient. One of its oft-aired Creole adages: "Being in a hurry doesn't make the day break." That may be true, but the Haitian people...