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...bunker mentality seems to have settled over the nine-member Sandinista national directorate that controls the country. Economically, Nicaragua is on the rocks. Politically, the Sandinista leadership is betraying itself as insecure, arbitrary and determined to hold on to power, come what may. Says one Western diplomatic analyst in Managua: "They've made up their minds they can't come to an understanding with the U.S., largely because of the El Salvador question. I think they are willing to take this country down to a subsistence economy and absolute misery if necessary...
...CAMERAS pan over post-revolution Managua, a folk singer laments the old days when, roughly translated, his country was "a feudal estate encumbered by the owners with a mortgage." Teaching people three, four and five times his age to write and read, an 11-year-old boy--one of 120,000 brigadistas in the nation's literacy campaign--recites to his pupils lessons like: "The Sandinista Front guards against Yankee imperialism." Along the highways, there are those insipid billboards--the smiling workers with strong shoulders and full faces, who sell only happiness and, by inference, obedience. The crudity...
...said Vice President George Bush last week in Rio de Janeiro, the Sandinistas will "make it strikingly clear in the eyes of the world that they fear the truth." Perhaps the most poignant statement on the fate of the troubled newspaper came from a youth in the barrios of Managua who fought against Somoza...
...most popular figure of the Sandinista revolution. In August 1978 he led the takeover of the National Palace in Managua, a daring assault that marked the beginning of the end for the forces of Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza. After the Sandinistas seized power, the movie-handsome guerrilla became an almost legendary symbol of the successful struggle. Whenever he appeared in public, crowds would break into spontaneous applause for the man they called by his nom de guerre: Comandante Cero (Commander Zero...
...Nicaragua. Though officials admitted that the reports have not been confirmed, Secretary of State Alexander Haig charged last week that Nicaragua has been steadily stockpiling other arms from the Soviet Union, Cuba and Libya. Haig added: "We see no threat [to Nicaragua] that justifies increases of this size." Managua, however, feels that a buildup is necessary to counter the threat of an invasion by right-wing Nicaraguan guerrillas based in neighboring Honduras...