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...Richard Lugar, R-Ind., revealed the plan not long after the State Department raised the possibility that the U.S. Embassy in Managua may be shut down and accused Nicaragua of refusing U.S. officials consular access to American Eugene Hasenfus, captured when the airplane crashed Sunday in southern Nicaragua...
...face of that new sense of menace, many Hondurans do not know where to turn. Although they dislike and distrust the leftist government in Managua, they are not keen to support the Sandinistas' enemies. Apart from destabilizing the area, the 15,000 contras have been charged with robbing . local campesinos and even, in a few cases, raping and killing them. Some Honduran officials fear the guerrillas are too ill prepared and misdirected to unseat the Sandinistas and will ultimately end up as refugees in Honduras. "They have no chance to win," says a local government official. "I just wish that...
...Sandinista government's $40 million project has stirred critics at home and abroad. Scoffed a U.S. State Department official: "It's amazing that they propose to do something like this when they can't even keep food on the shelves." In Managua, pro-Sandinista Columnist Jose Lopez Callejas decried putting a "piece of Miami, Monaco or Switzerland" on land "consecrated by the blood of our heroes and martyrs." The Sandinistas responded to the criticism by imposing a blackout on all new information about the resort...
Early one morning last week, when most Nicaraguans were still asleep, Felix Pedro Espinoza Briones, a member of the National Assembly, was busy climbing the chain link fence surrounding the Venezuelan embassy in Managua. After diplomats began arriving for work, he entered the building and requested asylum. Espinoza, a critic of the Sandinista regime, apparently feared arrest. Such concerns are widespread in Nicaragua these days. Since the House passed legislation to give $100 million in aide to forces fighting the Sandinistas, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra has been cracking down on a wide range of opponents...
...antichurch actions followed closely on the heels of the June 26 shutdown of La Prensa, the only remaining opposition daily in Managua. The 60- year-old newspaper's campaign against Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle once helped to put the revolutionary regime in power. Even so, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega Saavedra insists that La Prensa has become a vehicle for CIA propaganda and will remain closed until the "war" is over...