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...White Paper contained many charges that Washington has made in the past, including Sandinista aggression against Nicaragua's native Miskito Indian population. On the subject of exporting revolution, the White Paper charges that some 200 tons of weapons were shipped to Salvadoran guerrillas between late 1979 and early 1981. According to the White Paper, the flow continues, and the report specifically names the Nicaragua command center as the site from which Salvadoran guerrilla attacks and arms deliveries are coordinated. Sums up the report: "This level of outside support adds up to far more than merely marginal assistance for essentially...
Such pressure could be a major factor encouraging the Sandinistas to strike a bargain with the U.S. to call off the contras. The problem is that Nicaragua has long been willing to discuss such a deal-but unwilling to do anything about its side of the putative bargain. For more than two years, the Sandinistas have offered to squelch any support from their territory for the Salvadoran guerrillas if the U.S. would only provide hard information about the location of the aid-an offer repeated in Ortega's interview with TIME. For nearly a year, the U.S. has pointed...
...back up its claims of Nicaraguan aid to the Salvadoran rebels by releasing its second White Paper in two years on the subject (the first was issued in February 1981). Once again Washington asserted that Cuba, with Soviet help, was trying to "consolidate control of the Sandinista directorate in Nicaragua and to overthrow the governments of El Salvador and Guatemala...
...radios. Regarding arms shipments, Montenegro said, "I would get a radio signal to go to [San Salvador]. Teams had gathered together the arms shipments as they came in, and they had the responsibility for transporting them to us." The source of the clandestine arms shipments was Cuba, via Nicaragua...
Daniel Ortega, Saavedra, 37, head of Nicaragua's revolutionary junta and a leading member of the ruling nine-man National Directorate, is perhaps his country's most outspoken opponent of U.S. policy in Central America. His two-hour interview with TIME last week was heavy with criticism of what he sees as U.S. attempts to undermine Sandinista rule. Excerpts...