Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four could not express an anti-Communist stance in their communique because rebel forces in both Laos and Afghanistan are supported by Communist China. The likely next step will be the opening of a Democratic International office in Washington. Upshot: a new lobby to urge Congress to support the Nicaraguan contras and other anti-Communist guerrillas...
...scorn was clear in Ronald Reagan's voice. "The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug," he said of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, "did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. He made his choice long ago." The President was speaking last week at a fund raiser in Oklahoma City, but his real audience was members of Congress who were once again considering the resumption of aid to the contra rebels struggling against Ortega's Sandinista regime...
...weeks for troops to take the urban centers and several thousand lives would be lost on both sides, Barnes was told. "But then the Sandinistas would control the countryside," he says. From there they could wage a guerrilla war that would require a prolonged military occupation and counterinsurgency campaign. Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra was quoted as saying, "This is not going to be like fighting on the plains of Europe in the Second World War." A Rand Corp. study estimates such an operation could require at least 100,000 combat troops...
...contras," Ortega told workers during a visit to a textile factory Tuesday night, "even though we know that the U.S. will try to take advantage of these confrontations to create greater tensions between us and Honduras and Costa Rica." By crossing the borders in "hot pursuit" of the contras, Nicaraguan soldiers could create a pretext for greater U.S. military involvement in the region...
Already Costa Rica has downgraded diplomatic relations with Nicaragua over recent border incidents. Two of its civil guardsmen were killed in an ambush that it blames on the Nicaraguan army; Managua denies responsibility. In addition, a 40-man Costa Rican patrol that went to retrieve one of the bodies was shelled from Nicaraguan territory, even though Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto had been advised of the operation and had promised no interference...