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Privately, the Sandinistas concede that Nicaraguans have grown tired and disheartened in the course of the revolutionary crusade. So, they confess, have they. The former guerrilla fighters describe the current period as one of the hardest they have ever faced in their frequently grim revolutionary careers. They claim that no matter what they do, almost no one outside Nicaragua seems to believe them and that in Washington, the Reagan Administration seems unwilling to give in on any point at all. At times, the comandantes even lapse into the past tense when referring to their revolution. At a Directorate meeting last...
...Hague, U.S. legal representatives appeared before the 15-member International Court of Justice to argue against a Nicaraguan demand for an end to "all financial, military and other support" for the CIA-backed contras, who are fighting a guerrilla war against the Sandinistas. The Administration had hurriedly declared on April 6 that it would not recognize the court's jurisdiction over the issue, which arose after revelations that the CIA had actively helped mine Nicaraguan harbors. But Washington's lawyers joined in the legal fray after the court refused to dismiss the Nicaraguan plea. Whatever else might ensue...
With the Administration's Central American policy in trouble in Congress, senior officials began warning last week that Cuba was planning to increase the shipment of supplies to the estimated 10,000 guerrillas in El Salvador. According to information from within Cuba, they said, the latest arms buildup is in preparation for a major guerrilla offensive this fall, most likely in September. The increase is said to have been accompanied by a stepped-up guerrilla recruitment campaign, intended to raise their forces to about 14,000. The Administration's fear is that the guerrillas are planning a Salvadoran...
Jorge Blanco made a state visit to Ronald Reagan in early April, hoping to secure U.S. support in persuading the IMF to soften its conditions when new loan negotiations began this month. But because the Dominican Republic is a democracy and has no leftist guerrilla threat, Reagan praised its stability and offered no more than the $135.7 million U.S. aid package already approved for this year and eased restrictions on an additional $34 million in direct cash aid. The Dominican Republic now stands to gain $40 million dollars, mostly from a 2.8?-per-lb. duty exemption on its sugar exports...
...most enterprising is Florida's Fort Myers News-Press (circ. 64,200), which sends its reporters on what it calls "guerrilla raids" into the news territories of bigger papers-to cover racial unrest in Miami, for example, or terrorism in Central America. News-Press investigative reports led to the cancellation of a $1 million road-and-bridge project that would have benefited only the developer of a proposed housing tract, and to the conviction of a county commissioner for accepting a bribe in the form of services from prostitutes. News-Press editors provide crisp color and clear maps...