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...commercial exchanges" with Nicaragua. But other officials suggested that France, which already runs a $7 million trade deficit with Nicaragua, was not anxious to increase it. In Rome, Italian Prime Minister Benedetto ("Bettino") Craxi agreed to maintain Italy's current $70 million combination of aid and trade with Managua...
...Nicaraguan government evidently feels that its military presence close to the Honduran frontier will be enough to contain the contras. But the Sandinistas do not seem to have a strategy for the domestic disenchantment that has begun to seep even into their own ranks. In Managua's Barrio Riguero slum, a stronghold of militance during the 1979 insurrection against former Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, a Sandinista activist named Maria says she remains faithful to the revolution's principles, but "life is getting harder." The main problem: "Basic necessities cost more and more, and some items are almost impossible to find...
Nicaragua's Sandinista government may have been trying to send an important signal to someone last week. The question was, to whom, and what did it mean? In carefully worded conversations, some officials in Managua, the capital, let it be known that they were considering the temporary suspension of the country's 15-month-old military draft. The move, coming only a week after imposition of a U.S. trade embargo against Nicaragua, was interpreted by some as a potential peace offering from the Sandinistas to a hostile Reagan Administration. Others preferred to see it as a propaganda ploy, aimed...
...Washington, the Democratic majority on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence blocked yet another Administration proposal to provide $28 million of U.S. military assistance in the next fiscal year for the 15,000 contras battling the Managua regime. Efforts by Republican committee members to revive the funding for nonmilitary purposes were also defeated...
...Sandinistas provided their own acknowledgment that the contra issue remains important. In Managua, they bade farewell last week to 100 uniformed Cuban military advisers, who boarded a jetliner for Havana. The Cubans were leaving in fulfillment of a promise made by Ortega last February as part of a Nicaraguan "peace offensive" aimed at influencing the contra debate. But the ceremony was strictly for public consumption: an additional 85 Cubans either had arrived or were on their way to Nicaragua. The Sandinistas say that slightly under 700 Cuban military advisers remain in the country. U.S. estimates run to as many...