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...latest Sandinista stumble began last weekend, after Managua learned that the U.S. press would carry the damning charges of a recent Nicaraguan defector, Major Roger Miranda Bengoechea, who had occupied a top post in the Defense Ministry. Hoping to pre-empt Miranda's charges of a planned military buildup, Humberto Ortega delivered a powerful speech reaffirming Sandinista plans to arm up to 600,000 Nicaraguans and obtain Soviet MiG-21 jet fighters by 1995. Unflinchingly defiant toward the U.S., Humberto thundered, "We do not need to hide our relations with the socialist camp in defense matters...
...Manila, Aquino gets her man. -- Haiti announces a new try at elections. -- A Sandinista defector goes public in Washington...
...same day in Washington, Major Roger Miranda Bengoechea met with American journalists for the first time since he defected from Nicaragua two months ago. Miranda, 34, who served as the chief aide to Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra, is the most important Sandinista defector ever. In a five-hour interview, Miranda detailed explosive charges that could worsen Nicaragua's relations with its neighbors and the U.S., as well as damage Arias' peace plan. Among his claims...
Truths sometimes do emerge from this ordeal by interview, but all too often even the most innovative and intrusive questions meet canned replies. How could they not? By this point in a campaign, a candidate has answered more & repetitive questions than a Soviet defector undergoing a CIA debriefing. Spontaneity is in such short supply that the press treats an original response as if it were the skeleton key to the candidate's soul. Such scrutiny is the enemy of candor, since contenders face no short-term dangers by telling the truth as blandly as possible...
...TIME neglected the voices of Moscow's critics. In February 1985 we published excerpts from the memoirs of Soviet Defector Arkady Shevchenko, former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations. Late last year we carried selections from Elena Bonner's account of life with her husband Dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov during their exile in Gorky...