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Similarly, the Administration-with Haig in the lead-made the mistake of overblowing its claim that the ugly little war in El Salvador is a showdown between Soviet-Cuban expansionism and American resolve. There is little doubt that the Cubans and their Sandinista friends in Nicaragua have supplied the Salvadoran leftist guerrillas with arms. But by casting the Central American conflict in apocalyptic East-West terms, the U.S. has already prompted criticism from Western Europe, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela and even China...
...foreign press "collaborates with the left." Many reporters, including the New York Times's Alan Riding, have received death threats and cannot return to El Salvador. A writer for Mexico's Uno Mas Uno, Ignacio Rodriguez Terrazas, was murdered several months ago. Says Richard Meislin, who formerly covered Nicaragua for the New York Times. "Although I'd be interested in visiting El Salvador, I'm not so crazy as to be a reporter there now." The fact that most articles about El Salvador in the U.S. press are written from Washington, Mexico City, Managua, or Tegucigalpa, Honduras is testimony...
...Crimson of April 6, the president of the H-R Conservative Club defends his organization's sponsorship of Nicaraguan exile Jose Francisco Cardenal by saying that "I don't know everything about Nicaragua and I would like to hear for myself what Mr. Cardenal has to say about it." The sponsors of Mr. Cardenal's talk this Monday may know much less than they let on, however: the name Somoza, which meant political and economic power in Nicaragua the four decades before the 1979 revolution, is misspelled on all their publicity announcements. Such an error indicates an ignorance of Nicaraguan...
...terrorists lost one in Bangkok, they won in another hijack drama in Managua, Nicaragua. A Honduran Sahsa Airlines Boeing 737 was commandeered at gunpoint by five hijackers demanding the release of 15 leftists imprisoned in Honduras. In a complicated deal, the Honduran government agreed to free the prisoners if the plane's 50 passengers and six crew members were released into the custody of Panamanian authorities, acting as intermediaries. The plane was flown to Panama, where the passengers were released, and three days later a Panamanian Air Force jet was dispatched to Honduras to pick up ten leftist prisoners...
...Carter administration, the United States generally tolerated the violation of human rights in many Third World nations because of their opposition to Communism and the Soviet Union. Carter, on the other hand, recognized the internal stresses in these countries and encouraged rapidly developing nations such as Iran and Nicaragua to open up their political systems...