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...described in unusual detail the of the four-year-old contra program. Among the most important disclosures: American CIA agents have been directly involved, flying and firing from helicopters, in attacks on Nicaragua. And CIA optimism about the contras' prospects laded quick Internal 1982 memos predicted the fall of Managua by Christmas...
...today's American Government. There is something faintly comical about Nicaragua going to the World Court to accuse the U.S. of fomenting revolution and interfering in its affairs, when for years the Salvadoran revolution was quite openly headquartered in Managua--and not for a shortage of housing in the Salvadoran jungles. The Reagan Doctrine is more radical than it pretends to be. It pretends that support for democratic rebels is "self-defense" and sanctioned by international law. That case is weak. The real case rests instead on other premises: that to be constrained from supporting freedom by an excessive concern...
...Shultz-Ortega exchange was a brief respite from the heated propaganda battle that went on last week between the Reagan Administration and the Sandinistas. From Montevideo to the Nicaraguan capital of Managua to hearing rooms on Capitol Hill, the adversaries were engaged in rhetorical offensives to win the support, not so much of Central Americans, but of U.S. Congressmen. The hope on both sides: to sway U.S. legislators as they ponder the question of restoring aid to some 12,500 U.S.-backed contra rebels who are fighting the Nicaraguan regime. At week's end the funding struggle remained deadlocked...
...Democratic Force (F.D.N.), by far the largest contra group, has between 8,000 and 9,000 soldiers, up from 6,000 last year. Operating from enclaves in Honduras and bases in northern Nicaragua, they have swept as far south as the city of Matagalpa, about 60 miles north of Managua. New F.D.N. recruits must rely on rusty, World War I-vintage Mauser bolt-action rifles, given by the CIA in 1982. Though weapons and ammunition have been in woefully short supply, the stockpile is growing again. According to high- level F.D.N. sources, the contras possess an unspecified number of surface...
...small in number and too ill equipped to threaten the Sandinistas seriously, but they are also too stubborn to give up. "The contras know they can't win, but they won't admit it," says a prominent Honduran businessman. "At first they thought they would sweep into Managua. Now they know they are in a quagmire...