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...raised some questions about its objectivity. For one thing, the investigation was conceived by a Washington law firm (Reichler & Appelbaum) that represents the Sandinista government. For another, the two fact finders, New York Lawyer Reed Brody and Washington Law Student James Bordelon, lived in a government residence while in Managua and were given office space by the Sandinistas. The report, written by Brody, also noted that the Sandinistas had indicated where some witnesses could be found and sometimes provided transportation to reach them...
...Sandinistas, the downside to starting peace talks under the Reagan plan was the resumption of U.S. aid to the contras. If the rebels decided after 60 days that such talks were not going satisfactorily, they could unilaterally begin fighting again without losing the $14 million. In Managua's view, the U.S. "humanitarian" support would let the contras spend more of their own funds on weapons. At week's end, the government formally rejected the plan in a note to Washington. Contended Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann: "What President Reagan has said is, 'You drop dead, or I will kill...
Humberto Torres sat in a lean-to in a camp about 100 miles north of Managua last week, cradling the youngest of his five children, as he recalled his forced evacuation in March from Los Encuentros, a hamlet in northern Nicaragua. "The Sandinistas made us get out," he said, "because they told us they were going to destroy the houses." Like some 50,000 other peasants, Torres, 56, and his family have been moved south by the government in an effort to isolate an estimated 8,000 U.S.-supported contra rebels roaming through Nicaragua's five northern provinces. Villages...
...some of the dozen or so Mi-24 "Hind" helicopters it has received from the Soviet Union. The gunships, equipped with rockets and fast-firing guns, wield devastating firepower. Said Orlando Osario, a refugee evacuated with his family to the town of Jinotega, some 100 miles north of Managua: "I figured it was better to get out alive...
...Sandinistas see it, the evacuation has other advantages: it could boost agricultural production while giving Managua greater control over some of Nicaragua's subsistence farmers. In a speech last month, Agriculture Minister Jaime Wheelock Roman noted that while independent peasant farmers worked 48% of the nation's farmland to produce 26% of the crops, large cooperatives using only 24% of the land grew 49% of the harvest. Each of the new camps is attached either to a collective farm or to a privately owned cooperative, where some of the refugees have been given work...