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...were high that the forces that had united to overthrow hated Dictator Anastasio Somoza would join together to rebuild the war-shattered country. That did not happen. The nine-member Sandinista directorate, which is the real political power behind the country's five-man governing junta, has angered Nicaragua's nonradical friends abroad by adopting a strongly pro-Cuban and pro-Soviet foreign policy. The Sandinistas have also alienated nearly all their onetime anti-Somoza allies at home by trying to impose one-party rule on the country. The regime must now choose whether to move toward...
...REAGAN's POLICY will backfire, just as similar U.S. policy in Nicaragua and Iran did. On purely logistical terms, when the guerrillas finally bring down Duarte's regime, and undoubtedly they will, in some form or another, with the aid of the Soviets and Cuba, the United States will lose an ally in a "strategic" zone. And to the rest of the world, as the "dissent paper" itself warns, the United States will once again be left holding the bag--having aided the oppressors now powerless...
...million in military aid. By way of justification, U.S. diplomats argued that the increasing flow of sophisticated weaponry to the leftists from foreign sources indicated that the antigovernment forces had, in the words of U.S. Ambassador Robert White, "upped the ante." The envoy pointed the finger mostly at Nicaragua, not only as a transit point for arms, but also as the possible base from which a bizarre seaborne "invasion" had supposedly been launched during the offensive against the eastern coast of El Salvador...
...caches captured from the guerrillas during their offensive. Most of the weapons were of Western manufacture: Belgian automatic rifles, Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns and U.S. M16s. There were also large numbers of Soviet grenades and Chinese-made rocket launchers. The weapons, bought in many places and stockpiled in Nicaragua, according to intelligence reports, had been smuggled by small plane to clandestine landing strips in remote areas of El Salvador. Nicaragua has repeatedly denied such trafficking, but the Sandinistas have proclaimed their moral support of El Salvador's leftist offensive...
Increased U.S. military aid could also offer a pretext for the guerrillas' backers in Nicaragua and elsewhere to step up their own covert, and possibly even overt support. Thus, even as the guerrilla offensive appeared to have been halted for the foreseeable future, officials in the new Reagan Administration were worried that El Salvador might soon confront them with one of their first serious foreign policy dilemmas. -By Sara Medina...