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Young soldiers competed to build the tallest human pyramid, and teen-agers danced to recorded calypso music. Children indulged themselves in cotton candy. In a carnival-like atmosphere, 300,000 slogan-chanting Nicaraguans gathered in Managua last week to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the revolution that brought down Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. In his address to the crowd, Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra announced that opposition parties would be allowed to hold public rallies and to travel more freely during the campaign for the Nov. 4 elections, the country's first since the 1979 Sandinista takeover...
Seven of the expelled clergymen had joined Archbishop Miguel Obando y Bravo and several hundred protesters in a march through Managua on Monday. They were supporting a Nicaraguan priest whom the Sandinistas have accused of supplying weapons to the U.S.-backed contras, who are trying to overthrow the Sandinistas. The charge against all of the expelled priests was that they had criticized the government. "Foreign priests do not have the right to participate in politics against the government," declared Sergio Ramirez, a member of the Sandinista junta. Responded Archbishop Obando: "The government wants a church that is aligned with...
Tension between the church and the government surfaced in March 1983 when Sandinista groups shouted down the Pope as he spoke at a meeting in Managua. Last Easter Sunday, Nicaragua's nine bishops issued a pastoral letter that strongly urged the government to open a direct dialogue with the contras and opposition leaders. The Sandinistas are now apparently trying to link the bishops to the contras in the hope of diffusing the impact of what the government fears will be a church-supported boycott of elections...
...Honduras has always been the stupid child of the region, and what has happened with the U.S. shows it even more," complains Gilberto Goldstein, president of the Honduran Sugar Producers Association. That feeling was exacerbated when Secretary of State George Shultz paid a surprise visit to Nicaraguan leaders in Managua two months ago. It seemed to many Hondurans that Washington might be angling to resolve its differences with Nicaragua privately, peaceably, and over their heads. "At the insistence of the U.S., Honduras has been taking a hard line," points out a Honduran political scientist. "And now we're being...
...Managua, Jackson finally sensed the dangers. He telephoned Washington, D.C., Congressional Delegate Walter Fauntroy and the two crafted his anti-Farrakhan statement. Said Jackson to reporters: "Farrakhan has not campaigned on my behalf in more than four months. We agreed to that. His statements are independent of me." In a statement, Jackson promised, "I will not permit Minister Farrakhan's words, wittingly or unwittingly, to divide the Democratic Party." He called Farrakhan's comments "reprehensible and morally indefensible...