Word: managua
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...Reagan is going, the revolution stays." The billboards adorn the dusty roadways of Managua, a pitiful yelp of triumph in an exhausted country that has little else to celebrate. Yet the Sandinistas can cheer at least this: while Ronald Reagan will be just another private citizen in two months, Daniel Ortega Saavedra -- the man Reagan once called a "dictator in designer glasses" -- will remain firmly at the helm of a government that the White House terms an "outlaw regime...
...people of Nicaragua, Hurricane Joan was a rare thing, only the fourth such storm to touch their shores in the past century -- and by far the worst. But for officials in Managua and Washington, it was just politics as usual as Joan's 125-m.p.h. winds cut a swath of panic and devastation across the country, leaving 116 dead and flattening the Atlantic port city of Bluefields...
...Managua, Wright's remark enraged the Nicaraguan opposition, which claimed that Ortega would use the controversy to justify political repression. Said an unrepentant Wright: "The CIA was created to gather intelligence, not to make policy. That is the role of Congress...
Wright, speaking at his regular daily news conference Tuesday, had said that the Congress received information indicating the CIA had sought "to provoke an overreaction" by the Managua government to dissent in that country...
...Assembly delegate, in voting against Bermudez, scrawled "No military dictatorships" across his ballot. Seven regional commanders of the contras' southern front, which operates near the border with Costa Rica, announced they were pulling out of the Resistance. In a bitterly worded communique, they said, "The struggle against the Managua dictatorship is ill served by placing in the highest military command of the insurgency an ex-colonel of the hated Somocista National Guard...