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...National Seminary in Managua, TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich found 11,000 refugees crowded onto the grounds of what had been a retirement home for elderly priests. Reported Diederich...
...fledged civil war in which at least 2,000 died after a Sandinista force led by the now legendary Comandante Cero (zero) briefly seized the National Palace in Managua last fall. Since then political moderates have reluctantly rallied to the Sandinista cause. As one businessman told TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich: "If the FSLN wins I don't know what our fate will be, but frankly I would rather see Somoza leave now and worry about that later...
Attacked from without, the church is dangerously divided within over its social strategy in a region ground down by staggering poverty as well as political oppression. As Sister Marta Freeh Lopez, a missionary nun in Nicaragua, told TIME'S Bernard Diederich, "I am certainly not a Marxist, but while we in the church have contented ourselves with teaching the Lord's Prayer, the Marxists are out offering solutions to existing problems...
...National Guard quickly moved in reinforcements. On Tuesday afternoon, without warning, it launched a three-hour aerial attack, concentrating on the poor barrios in the hills around the city. Visiting Matagalpa shortly after the attack, TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich found the hospitals filled with wounded. At least 17 people were dead. Many residents had fled the city, but those who remained were defiant. "We know they are going to bomb us again," said an elderly woman. "It shows what a barbaric regime we are living under...
...Reported Diederich: "Piles of lettuce and carrots lay rotting alongside empty stalls of the central market on Morazan Park. Just a few people ventured along the streets, holding white flags. Others stood in their doorways, moving back into their adobe-walled homes and shops when a rifle cracked close by. 'That's the National Guard,' said a bare-chested man hearing a shot. 'They have the big-sounding guns...