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Bulgaria denies charges that it sent its navy to supply Nicaragua with arms, claiming that all three of its rowboats have never left domestic waters...
...that almost toppled the Turkish government in 1979. According to Israeli intelligence officials, more than 1,000 Palestinian terrorists have been trained in Bulgarian camps over the past decade, and all the heavy armaments used by the P.L.O. in Lebanon were shipped from the Black Sea port of Varna. Nicaragua's former Ambassador to the U.S. Francisco Fiallos Navarro last week revealed that Bulgarian advisers "have a very important role in economic planning in Nicaragua...
Francisco Fiallos Navarro, 36, has been faced with a daunting task: defending the interests of Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government to a hostile Administration in Washington. For ten months the unassuming Ambassador to the U.S. performed the job loyally and, according to State Department officials, well. So well, in fact, that few people knew of Fiallos' growing misgivings about the onetime revolutionaries who hold power in Nicaragua. Last week, however, the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry announced that Fiallos was being reassigned to other unspecified duties. Fiallos' version was that he had quit, becoming the second Nicaraguan Ambassador...
...urged the Sandinistas to make a "dramatic change" in their policies if they want to maintain international credibility. But the government promptly banned newspaper publication of the interview, scheduled to appear Dec. 10. As Fiallos told TIME Correspondent Ross H. Munro last week, "During my frequent visits to Nicaragua, I saw the deteriorating situation in our country and transmitted my worries to the junta. I told them that they had to change course and win back the support of the people, but I realized that no matter what I said, and what other people said, things would not change...
...increasing number of Catholic missionaries, identification with the cause of the poor means advocacy of radical changes in political and economic systems-even if those changes are being spearheaded by Marxist revolutionary movements. Advocates of this so-called liberation theology are most visible in Nicaragua, where five priests, contrary to the Pope's directive against the clergy holding political office, are members of the Marxist-led Sandinista government...