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After an 89-page CIA manual that instructed rebels in Nicaragua on terrorist tactics surfaced last month, the White House promised that any official involved in its development or approval would be dismissed. But in a letter to members of the House and Senate Intelligence committees that was made public last week, CIA Director William Casey insisted that the thrust of the manual had been misinterpreted, and he attempted to justify its overall purpose. "The emphasis is on education," Casey wrote, "not on turning a town into a battlefield...
Frederick E. Snyder, lecturer of Latin American law and assistant dean at the Law School, visited Nicaragua last week with a private group to monitor Sunday's elections...
WASHINGTON--A Soviet freighters route to Nicaragua may be carrying advanced MiG-21 jet fighters, according to U.S. intelligence officials quoted by CBS news...
...Nicaraguan embassy denied the reports. But White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speaks said the U.S. has not ruled "anything out," including a possible blockade of Nicaragua. Other U.S. reports suggested that the Soviet Union is also sending over attack and transport helicopters...
...Sandinista government of Nicaragua, convincing the world that next week's national elections will be meaningful has been an uphill climb. The first major setback came when Arturo Cruz Porras, widely considered to be the strongest opponent facing Sandinista Presidential Candidate Daniel Ortega Saavedra, decided once and for all three weeks ago not to run, claiming that the regime would not allow him to campaign freely. Then the next strongest rival, Virgilio Godoy Reyes of the Independent Liberal Party, announced last week that he too was dropping out. "There are not sufficient guarantees for an electoral process," said...