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Daniel Ortega Saavedra hit the road at 5 a.m., bound for the northwestern city of Ocotal, where several thousand supporters awaited him. The same day, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro met in her airy Managua home with advisers of her National Opposition Union (U.N.O.), then received a courtesy call from Joao Baena Soares, secretary-general of the Organization of American States. Next door, Chamorro's aides frantically tried to add more appearances to her schedule, despite doctors' orders not to tax her limited stamina...
Eager to win official recognition from the Bush Administration, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.) has turned up the propaganda noise and ladled out servings from a meager pork barrel. Billboards featuring Ortega nuzzling his daughter Camila, 2, dominate Managua, while the strains of the Sandinista campaign song (and old Beatles hit) All You Need Is Love blare from TVs and radios. The F.S.L.N. has distributed nearly a million toys in a country where playthings are a rarity, and has also handed out 1,000 parcels of land to farmers. Two weeks ago, Ortega pardoned the last of Nicaragua...
...Roman Catholic nuns, Sister Maureen Courtney, 45, of Milwaukee, and Sister Teresa de Jesus Rosales, a Nicaraguan in her early 20s, died last week in a bloody nocturnal ambush 200 miles northeast of Managua, as they drove in a pickup truck from the capital to a church meeting in Puerto Cabezas on the Atlantic Coast. Bishop Paul Schmitz, 46, an American wounded in the attack, . said a rocket-propelled grenade hit the hood of the white Toyota, and "everything just exploded." Automatic-rifle fire pierced the pickup, breaking Schmitz's arm. He and a fourth passenger, Nicaraguan Sister Francesca Colomer...
With tension already high between Washington and Managua, the politically tinged charges were hardly surprising. Long-strained relations soured further last month when the U.S. invaded Panama -- which the Sandinistas predictably denounced as Yanqui imperialism. To make matters worse, U.S. soldiers burst into the residence of the Nicaraguan Ambassador to Panama and searched it for weapons, a blatant violation of diplomatic immunity. Managua retaliated by expelling 20 American diplomats. Still bristling last week, Ortega drew a nasty parallel between the ambush and the November slaying of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador, a crime many believe was committed...
Another diplomatic contretemps flared up when U.S. troops briefly invaded the residence of Nicaragua's Ambassador to Panama Antenor Ferrey, apparently to search for a cache of weapons. They turned up five rifles, which were later returned with an apology. In retaliation, Nicaragua ordered 20 American diplomats to leave Managua...