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...local militia force, numbering about 25, were killed, along with a French microbiologist, Pierre Grosjean, 32, who was visiting the area to study leishmaniasis, an ulcerating skin disease. After the Rancho Grande assault, Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra, whose brother Daniel is coordinator of the Nicaraguan junta, declared confidently that "the counterrevolutionary forces are in serious difficulty...
...convincing too many people that a Marxist-Leninist victory would amount to self-government, that guerrillas are always supported by the majority, that no civilian casualties are caused by the rebels and that leftist victories are always inevitable . . . We don't think that the declarations of the Nicaraguan junta, Soviet press agencies and Fidel Castro should go unexamined by the press...
...Chile, where Augusto Pinochet had headed a military junta with strong American support for the last 10 years, Amnesty International is investigating the "disappearances" of 250 prisoners of conscience. All political parties and activities are banned in Chile, and the government routinely makes arrests, banishes dissidents to remote areas of the country, holds people incommunicado for weeks, and worse. Justice is meager. One man, Guillermo Rodriguez Morales, was accused in 1981 of killing a government agent and sentenced to life imprisonment after a 45 minute trial...
...immediately upon his arrival at Managua's Augusto Cesar Sandino Airport, the Pope was plunged into national politics. While the sunburned Pontiff stood in the blazing heat for an airport welcoming ceremony, Sandinista junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra delivered a 25-minute greeting, in which he blasted U.S. foreign policy and warned that "the footsteps of interventionist boots echo threateningly in the White House and the Pentagon." He told the Pope that the Nicaraguan people were "martyred and crucified every day, and we demand solidarity with right on our side." Ortega also went out of his way to tell...
...report revealed that he had repeatedly warned during his three-year tenure of the dangers of diplomatic stalling. He had also disagreed with Thatcher's decision to withdraw the Royal Navy's survey ship H.M.S. Endurance from Falklands patrol, a move that some believe convinced the Argentine junta that Britain would not resist an invasion...