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...ticked off the contrasts: "The new Reagan praises international law. The old Reagan jumped bail from the World Court. The new Reagan criticizes South Africa. The old Reagan cozied up to apartheid. The new Reagan calls for peace in Central America. The old Reagan launched an illegal war in Nicaragua." All this raises a question, Mondale declared, "How can the American people tell which Reagan would be President if he's re-elected?" With fervor, Mondale added, "I won't permit this crowd to steal the future from our children without a fight...
Suddenly the pugnacious, increasingly hard-pressed Sandinista government of Nicaragua seemed to have seized the diplomatic initiative from Washington. To some it even appeared that the U.S. was on the defensive in its war of guns and acrimony with the Marxist-led regime in Managua. Catching Washington offbalance, the Sandinistas last week announced their willingness to accept, "in its totality and without modification," the draft of a regional nonaggression treaty sponsored by Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela. Collectively known as the Contadora group, those countries have been trying since July 1983 to bring peace and democracy to Central America...
...subject of the verification of arms inventories-to convince increasingly skeptical friends and neighbors of their democratic and peaceful intentions. The U.S. reaction produced exasperation in Managua. Said a senior official of the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry: "It sometimes seems as if, short of committing collective suicide, there is nothing Nicaragua can do to please the United States...
Some observers regarded the confusion over whether Nicaragua is being sincere or is involved in trickery as evidence of a power struggle within the Sandinista leadership. An opposition politician asserted that Sandinista moderates had previously agreed to delay the vote in order to appease international opinion. This, he said, was reversed when Nicaraguan Interior Minister Tomas Borge Martinez and Planning Minister Henry Ruiz Hernandez returned from Eastern Europe two weeks ago. The moderates agreed not to delay the vote in return for the acceptance of the proposed Contadora pact. Their capitulation has angered the opposition, known as the Coordinadora...
...Nicaragua, Reagan has carefully muted his rhetorical support for the U.S.-backed contras in their effort to overthrow the Sandinista government, and in June he dispatched Shultz on a surprise trip to Managua in an effort to open negotiations with the Marxist-led regime. Even Mondale's advisers admit that the President has succeeded in lowering the profile of the Central American issue. "He's calmed it down," says Carter. "There are no Army maneuvers in Honduras...