Word: nicaragua
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...President Daniel Ortega Saavedra visited Los Angeles last fall, the group welcomed him with receptions and a Beverly Hills garden party. Oscar-winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler, with the backing of fantasy-film Mogul George Lucas, this summer will release a dramatic movie that is critical of U.S. policy in Nicaragua. "Of course we know the political impact that a feature film on Central America will have," says Wexler. "That's why we made...
...their efforts to seize some of the spotlight from their left-wing rivals. At a press conference in New York City last week, Arturo Cruz, Adolfo Calero and Alfonso Robelo, leading members of the opposition to the Sandinistas, made a plea for renewed U.S. support for their movement. Nicaragua has become "a sanctuary for terrorism, a center for subversion," Robelo said. He warned of an ominous domino chain of Communist expansion: "When Mexico finally explodes, it's going to affect California, Texas and beyond...
...relations efforts on behalf of the contras. Patrick Buchanan, the White House communications director, is sponsoring daily conferences with officials from the Pentagon and the State Department to chart plans for winning the congressional vote. Reagan is expected to give at least two speeches this week publicizing his new Nicaragua package, which proposes peace talks between the Sandinistas and their opposition, plus $14 million in aid to the contras--money that can be used for military purposes only if there is no progress after 60 days of negotiations. The President will hold a series of private Oval Office meetings...
...menacing action began last Wednesday, on barren, rock-strewn ground marking a rare flat stretch of the rugged border between Marxist Nicaragua and U.S. ally Honduras. The oppressive quiet of early afternoon was broken by a buzz, quickly swelling into a roar. Out of a cloud of dust lumbered heavy tanks and armored personnel carriers, following an obvious invasion route north toward the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, some 80 miles away...
Though the maneuvers are scarcely unprecedented, they are clearly extraordinary. Honduras, which borders on war-torn El Salvador as well as Nicaragua, makes an ideal base for U.S. operations in Central America. About 1,500 American troops are stationed there, and the U.S. has built a network of permanent facilities: airfields, antitank ditches, a full-size military hospital. It is no secret that some of these facilities have been used to support American allies outside Honduras. Contra guerrillas battling the Sandinistas in Nicaragua train at American-built camps in Honduras; U.S. pilotless, or drone, planes are said to fly from...