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...Nicaragua's Plight
Your report about Nicaragua's situation [Sept. 11] describes the heroic fight of an entire people on their way to freedom. Call them Sandinistas or rebels, all of them are heroes and are working to make their country free, not a family farm any more...
Well, look who gave asylum to the Nicaraguan guerrillas: the new owners of the Panama Canal. Yes, the people of Nicaragua cheer the guerrillas, but that is only because the devil they have is the only problem they...
Somoza's political opponents include not only the Marxist-oriented Sandinistas but the majority of Nicaragua's business, intellectual and religious leaders as well. They remain convinced that the fighting had exposed both economic and moral lesions that in time will destroy Tacho's nine-year-old regime...
...brief civil war had worsened Nicaragua's troubled economic situation. Washington has cut off military aid and late last week the Senate chopped $8 million in economic assistance to Nicaragua from the $9.2 billion aid bill. The war triggered a panicky outflow of capital, at least $30 million, no small sum in a country with a G.N.P. of $2.1 billion...