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...unity pact in Panama City, joining their political and military organizations on the northern and southern Nicaraguan fronts under a single directorate. The document, signed by representatives of the Nicaraguan Democratic Front (F.D.N.) and the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE), called for the establishment of a pluralistic democracy in Nicaragua and urged "all lovers of liberty to unite so that tyranny can be eradicated and Soviet expansion in the hemisphere blocked." Contra leaders said they would support Cruz...
...before, an agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration had filed an affidavit in a U.S. district court in Miami charging that the Sandinistas had encouraged South American drug dealers to use a 6,000-ft. airstrip, a hangar and a cocaine-processing laboratory in Nicaragua to foster the shipment of drugs...
...Pope vs. the Sandinistas "I would wish to invite you to pray for the church of Nicaragua, which in recent days has lived through a sad event. It is especially serious, added to the trials already suffered there." Pope John Paul II's words, coming at the end of his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square last Wednesday, were unusually strong, but so was the provocation. Two days earlier, Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government had expelled ten foreign priests, four of them Spaniards, whom It accused of being involved in anti-government activities...
Tension between the church and the government surfaced in March 1983 when Sandinista groups shouted down the Pope as he spoke at a meeting in Managua. Last Easter Sunday, Nicaragua's nine bishops issued a pastoral letter that strongly urged the government to open a direct dialogue with the contras and opposition leaders. The Sandinistas are now apparently trying to link the bishops to the contras in the hope of diffusing the impact of what the government fears will be a church-supported boycott of elections...
...Washington, meanwhile, a former Salvadoran guerrilla commander who has been cooperating with U.S. intelligence gave support last week to an oft-disputed assertion of the Reagan Administration by noting that "99.9%" of the Salvadoran guerrillas' weapons once came from Nicaragua. According to Administration officials, the guerrillas are now doing so badly that they have to recruit new members forcibly...