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...place, the Sandinistas' Marxist ideology denies the usefulness and even the possibility for real elections. And in the second place, any group with such a hold on all sources of power is unlikely voluntarily to endanger its rule at the polls. Similarly with the trumpeted acceptance of the Contadora draft treaty--why should the Sandinistas accept any outside limitations on their support of El Salvadoran rebels solely out of the goodness of their hearts? In both cases, it is American-backed military pressure, not talks, which has pushed the Sandinistas, however slightly, toward both peace and pluralism...
When the Sandinlatas suddenly announced last month that they would accept a draft of a non-aggression pact proposed by the Contadora group, Washington was understandably skeptical about their intentions. For at the same time, the government refused to postpone the elections to give the opposition candidates a reasonable shot at office, thus effectively scotching the application in Nicaragua of the Contadora principle of free participation of political parties in the electoral process. Nor, despite Washington's horrible policies towards the country, is there any evidence backing up Ortega's claim--repeated in a Harvard appearance last week--that Washington...
...full extent of the security breach, critics - inside the agency and out "questioned how so unreliable a man could have been assigned to sensitive security work. Says a retired agent on the West Coast: "Why was he on that job, of all jobs? You should bury him working draft dodgers or stolen cars." One theory, which has been raised by many agents but with little substantiation, is that Miller, who was a Mormon, had been given some protection by fellow Mormons within the bureau. He had been transferred to intelligence after the Los Angeles division director, Richard Bretzing, also...
...diplomats, the document would require the U.S. to halt military aid to El Salvador immediately, without stopping Soviet and Cuban assistance to Nicaragua. The Contadora nations, on the other hand, evidently feel that the U.S. is stalling. "We cannot clearly understand the opposition of the U.S. to the Contadora draft treaty," Mexican Foreign Minister Bernardo Sepulveda Amor told TIME editors last week. "I don't think we can go on forever negotiating documents...
...Radiers sent reserve center Jim Romano to the Oilers for undisclosed draft choices...