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...legislative obstacles were only the start of Reagan's Central American headaches last week. In Honduras, army efforts to move the contras out of camps near the Nicaraguan border threatened to impede the rebels' efforts to weaken Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government. In Nicaragua, Sandinista officials irritated Washington both by seeking to set up their own talks with Honduras and by announcing an oil deal with the Soviet Union. In Costa Rica, the Reagan Administration came under increasing criticism for sending Green Berets to a base...
...miles from San Jose to train hundreds of civil guardsmen. The only bright spot was El Salvador, where captured documents gave backing to Administration claims that Salvadoran leftist guerrillas have strong ties to Nicaragua and the Soviet bloc...
...Administration was particularly annoyed by Honduran moves to dislodge droves of contras from camps along the frontier with Nicaragua that the rebels have been occupying since mid-1981. The Hondurans are anxious to close the camps so that the Sandinistas, who this month made two incursions into the area, will have no excuse for further attack. It remained unclear last week where most of the estimated 15,000 rebels are now operating. The contras claimed that 12,000 of their troops have returned to Nicaragua. Sandinista officials insist that the rebels have retreated to areas farther inside Honduras, possibly...
...Nicaragua, Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra's renewed calls for bilateral talks with Honduras were ostensibly aimed at relieving border tensions. Washington believes such conversations would run counter to the Contadora process, the regional effort to bring peace to Central America. The minister's brother, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, concluded his 25-day, 14-country tour of Eastern and Western Europe with the announcement that Moscow had agreed to supply up to 90% of Nicaragua's oil needs. Since estimates are that the Soviet Union already provides some 75% to 90% of Nicaragua's consumption...
There was some comfort for the Reagan Administration in El Salvador, where the government last week revealed documents that, if authentic, back Washington's charges of strong leftist Salvadoran guerrilla ties to the Soviet bloc and Nicaragua. The papers indicate that several guerrillas have attended military-training courses in the Soviet Union, Viet Nam, East Germany and Bulgaria. The letters, diaries and other documents also suggest that relations between the Salvadoran rebels and the Sandinistas have been strained at times, particularly in the months following the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada. The papers, said one U.S. official, "tend to confirm...