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WHILE RONALD REAGAN was chuckling this weekend at Rancho Cielo over his successful political maneuvers both in the Senate and on the borders of Nicaragua, there were surely some equally gleeful chuckles deep in the heart of the Evil Empire...
...governments in Latin America seem to remember. Several South American nations--among them Argentina, Brazil and Columbia--have joined the Contadora group of Central American countries in publically opposing aid to the Contras and calling for the U.S. and Nicaragua to negotiate a peaceful resolution to regional tensions--something the Sandinistas have repeatedly offered to do, and the Reagan Administration has refused repeatedly...
...does not seem at all likely that the contras are going to make them vanish, at least anytime soon. Cut off from U.S. military aid by Congress since 1984, the rebels have been losing ground to Nicaragua's well-equipped, well-trained counterinsurgency battalions. A year ago, some 15,000 contras roamed the Nicaraguan countryside, mostly across the northern third of the country. Today only about 4,000 contras remain in Nicaragua; the rest have been pushed back into their Honduran sanctuaries. Last week, in raids timed to show the flag to Congress, 3,000 contras infiltrated across the Honduran...
...heart of the diplomatic question is precisely what should and can be negotiated. The Reagan Administration insists that Nicaragua must move away from totalitarianism to pluralism. Yet, as U.S. Ambassador Harry Bergold concedes, "We have to assume that Marxist-Leninists will not allow themselves to be voted out of power." Says Nicaragua's Ambassador to the U.S., Carlos Tunnermann Bernheim: "We are ready to negotiate all national-security concerns the U.S. has with us. We will allow no Soviet or American bases. We have said this repeatedly. But we will never negotiate the revolution...
...governments of Latin America are by and large willing to let Nicaragua have its revolution. They are more interested in negotiating safeguards designed to keep Nicaragua from spreading insurrection to their countries, in short, a policy of containment. In 1984 the so-called Contadora group --Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Panama--got Nicaragua to agree to a proposal to reduce the size of its army and expel foreign advisers. The U.S. balked at the proposal, however, because it set no timetables for the departure of Nicaragua's Cuban advisers, offered no means of verification and did not address internal reforms...