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Before the election the atmosphere was charged with loud and often violent disagreement. The pressure to participate was high: many citizens feared that they would lose precious food-rationing cards if they failed to register to vote. Yet after the tension of the preliminaries, election day in Nicaragua last Sunday came as something of an anticlimax. There was little of the exuberance, or the fear, that had been variously predicted for the country's first trip to the polls since the 1979 revolution that overthrew Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Indeed, the Nicaraguan election mood was one of indifference...
...arms limitation agreement is unverifiable," responded Koppel. "Moreover, he U.S. government opposed only that one form of the Contadora agreement." "There is only one form I know of," replied D'Escoto, "signed by Colombia, Panama, Mexico, Venezuela and Nicaragua, rejected by the U.S." And again to the core of the matter: "The U.S. government did not and will not sign because the Reagen administration is committed to the overthrow of the Sandinistas...
Koppel: "Do you really believe Reagan would invade Nicaragua...
...NEXT NIGHT on ABC "World News Tonight" a three minute piece on Nicaragua described the "paranoid" fear of Nicaraguans concerning an imminent U.S. invasion in addition to the tremendous Nicaraguan arms buildup. All of one sentence was devoted to mentioning that there is a war going on in that country, and that one sentence neglected to mention that it is almost entirely financed by the United States...
...point, however, is not whether or not the U.S. is going to invade Nicaragua (although in the end that, of course, is what really matters). The tragedy is that should an invasion occur. Americans will most certainly learn from Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel that the invasion was provoked by Nicaragua; that there is no Nicaraguan side of the story...