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None of the charges was new. All had been invoked repeatedly by the Administration only a week earlier during its unsuccessful bid to win the congressional release of $14 million in U.S. assistance for the contra rebels who are fighting against the Managua regime. In effect, Speakes charged the Sandinistas with more of the same...
When Pope John Paul II named 28 new cardinals from 19 different countries last week, the list reflected the Pope's concern for doctrinal orthodoxy and his opposition to Communism. Among the Archbishops elevated to the Sacred College: Miguel Obando y Bravo of Managua, Nicaragua, and Paulos Tzadua of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, each a determined critic of his country's leftist government, and Warsaw's Henryk Gulbinowicz, a supporter of Poland's outlawed Solidarity union. Also receiving red hats were two U.S. prelates whose outlooks seem cut from papal cloth: Boston's Bernard F. Law and New York City...
...have gone into action throughout Honduras, a nation the size of Tennessee. In one operation, U.S. and Honduran soldiers will push off side by side from base camps, practicing ways to search the jungles of northern Honduras for leftist guerrillas who might rise in response to a call from Managua to support an invasion...
...reason for this view is that the Sandinistas have not hesitated to intimidate their neighbors. Washington sometimes inflates the menace posed by Nicaragua's Soviet-aided military buildup; Reagan was simply wrong when he declared in 1983 that Managua's armed forces exceed those of all other Central American countries combined. But, counting full-time soldiers and militia on active duty, the Nicaraguan army of 62,000 is by far the largest of any single country in the area. Nicaragua has 150 tanks; Guatemala has ten and the other Central American nations none at all. Though the Sandinistas are deficient...
...guerrilla movements in which the U.S. is most involved, in Nicaragua and Afghanistan, may both be approaching turning points. The civil wars there have indeed succeeded in softening up the Soviets and their local comrades. The regimes in Managua and Kabul, while not crying uncle, are clearly hurting and may even be looking for a negotiated compromise. The rebels, while not about to win, are not about to surrender either. Soon the U.S., as their principal backer, may have to decide on the next step...