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While there were reports of fighting in the area near the border with Honduras, much of the struggle seemed to be a battle of words, chiefly directed against the U.S. Declared Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann: "The United States is waging war against Nicaragua." That kind of provocative rhetoric drew a sharp response from U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick. Said she: "The United States isn't invading anybody...
...airport ceremony forced John Paul to deal head-on with the nettlesome issue of Nicaraguan priests who hold government posts in defiance of his wishes. Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, a Maryknoll priest, was conveniently out of the country, attending a meeting of the nonaligned nations in New Delhi, when the Pope arrived. But Minister of Culture Ernesto Cardenal Martinez, a priest, was in the official receiving line along with other government ministers. He was wearing his typical rustic white cotton shirt, baggy blue work pants and a black beret. As the Pontiff approached, Cardenal whipped off his beret...
Under the Vatican's code of canon law, priests can hold government jobs if they have received permission from their local bishop. Two priests have prominent positions in the Nicaraguan Cabinet, Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann of the U.S. Maryknoll Society, and Culture Minister Ernesto Cardenal, a secular priest and noted poet. Four others hold high government posts. But in 1981 Nicaragua's bishops withdrew their approval. A truce was arranged: the priests would remain in office, but they would have to wear civilian clothes when carrying out official duties and not perform religious functions. However...
...American States on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, Haig said that the U.S. "is prepared to join others in doing whatever is prudent and necessary to prevent any country in Central America from becoming the platform of terror and war." As Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann listened gravely, Haig added that "if Nicaragua addresses our concerns about interventionism and militarization . . . we do not close the door to the search for proper relations...
Conservative Catholics saw red last year when Maryknoll magazine, edited by D'Escoto before he joined the Nicaraguan revolution, lauded Cuba for "advances in a brief span of 20 years [which] are unparalleled in Latin America." The magazine's publisher, Father Darryl Hunt, like the ill-starred Father Bourgeois, has shed all nonpartisanship on the touchy issue of El Salvador. He charges that "the U.S. continues to support a clique of rightist murderers...