Word: nicaraguan
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Saying that the United States has consistently misrepresented the aims of his government, a visiting Nicaraguan official yesterday attacked President Reagan's anti-Sandinista stance and the Administration's efforts to aid Nicaraguan rebels...
Speaking at the Center for International Affairs, Alejandro Martinez, Nicaragua's Minister of Foreign Trade, took issue with Reagan's attempt to portray Nicaragua as a Soviet pawn. Martinez said that the Nicaraguan government has only sought help from the Soviet Union when it felt that "the U.S. was trying to kill...
...Reagan Administration maintains that the Sandinista's have suppressed human rights and have become a Soviet satellite in the Americas. Reagan has used such claims in his efforts to win approval of $100 million in aid to the Nicaraguan Contras...
...border agreement follows the election last month of Costa Rican President-elect Oscar Arias Sanchez. Shortly after his victory, the feuding neighbors resumed relations and exchanged new ambassadors. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra was quick to portray the accord as evidence of his country's desire for peace in the region. The Reagan Administration, which last week asked Congress for an additional $100 million in aid for the contras, was unimpressed. Said a State Department spokesman: "It's nice they're having these bilateral accords, but they can't take the place of a regional, verifiable settlement...
White House communications director Patrick J. Buchanan argued that the Contra aid vote will reveal whether the Democratic Party "stands with Ronald Reagan and the resistance -- or (Nicaraguan President) Daniel Ortega and the communists...