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Ethiopia's deepest fears center on the U.S. The African nation's leaders are worried that the Reagan Administration may back rebel forces against Addis Ababa, just as it supports contra efforts to oust the Marxist-Leninist Nicaraguan regime. Yet officials in Washington, which provided $282 million in emergency aid to Ethiopia last year, say they have no wish to topple Mengistu. Notes a senior diplomat: "We've told the Ethiopians that we would like to engage in a serious dialogue with them. Every time we propose a place and a time, we are rebuffed...
...group of democratic "freedom fighters." That conservatives continue to do this is not only mystifying, but frustrating as well. This is exactly the same self-deception that prompted many American leftists to believe the Sandinistas' claim of being a democratic, peaceful source of social good, and to give the Leninist Daniel Ortega repeated standing ovations during his 1984 Harvard appearance...
...Sandinistas. It is now clear to me that from the beginning the overwhelming majority of this group was not just Marxist-Leninist but strongly proSoviet and particularly pro-Cuban. In the contra camps we visited, they used the term engano, which means "we were tricked, we were hoaxed." The Sandinistas have not only lost popular support, I think they are detested by the population...
...rejected contra funding eleven months ago, he embarked on a well- publicized and ill-timed pilgrimage to Moscow. House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who engineered the most recent defeat of the contra aid package, termed the invasion a "tremendous blunder" and disgustedly called Ortega "a bumbling, incompetent Marxist-Leninist, a Communist." Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont quipped sarcastically that he "had heard a rumor that Daniel Ortega is secretly on the payroll of one of our intelligence agencies as a lobbyist for the Administration...
...have been tapped, their offices ransacked, their lives threatened. Hundreds of people have been detained, many of them suspected of collaborating with the enemy in contra-infiltrated areas. Like Reagan, many Nicaraguans and outside observers believe that such repressive measures prove that the Sandinistas are carving out a Marxist-Leninist state designed to thwart all democratic expression...