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Nicaragua would have never caused so much stir in the U.S. if Daniel Ortega's government were not Marxist. But that fact alone is enough to convince the Reagan Administration that this Central American nation about the size of Arkansas threatens the security of the United States. It is this threat that makes Reagan push for more contra aid. Yet at the same time, he calls peace the final goal in Central America...
...Jackson draws the ire of Biblical Scoreboard because he is "anti-military superiority," anti-Star Wars, and he's a liberal. Quoting an unnamed political analyst, Biblical Scoreboard says Jackson would be "the first Marxist President of the United States...
Ortega's sudden switch to good-guy tactics did not sway the Resistance, which directs some 10,000 contras who are trying to overthrow the Marxist-led regime. Meeting in the Dominican Republic, the organization's 54-member Assembly, which considers itself Nicaragua's government-in-exile, elected a new seven-man directorate. Among its members: former Colonel Enrique Bermudez, 56, the contras' commander in chief since 1981. The inclusion of Bermudez, who served in the National Guard of the dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, represents a major victory for hard-liners within the Resistance who believe that the Sandinistas...
With the rebel bands threatening to break Ethiopia in two, the brutal Mengistu and his secretive Marxist government have begun a frenzied effort to win back lost ground. In recent weeks government troops have retaken the major towns of Tigre, but the battle-hardened Eritreans have fought them to a stalemate. Both sides have used the region's chronic hunger as a weapon, with the rebels attacking a relief convoy and Mengistu ordering most foreign-aid workers out of Eritrea and Tigre. Some food is still reaching the estimated 2 million to 3 million victims of northern Ethiopia's latest...
Only last spring, the civil war in Nicaragua, deep into its eighth year, seemed to be in a peaceful lull. The Marxist-oriented Sandinista government was meeting face to face with the U.S.-backed contras and loudly promising to install democracy in Managua. In Washington the House defied Reagan Administration pleas and voted down military support for the guerrillas. But last week, in a sudden burst of high-handed actions, the Sandinistas raised fresh doubts about their intentions and provoked forceful new White House calls for lethal aid to the contras...