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...State of the Union address that backward nations could learn a lesson from the "moral fortitude of [South African Prime Minister] Pete Botha's regime," which he calls "the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers." He adds that the approval of $6 million in aid to the Nicaraguan contras, on the condition that they bomb Managua's leading manufacturer of designer sunglasses, is "a victory for the United St--I mean, democracy everywhere...
...greater pressures" now being exerted on Nicaragua by the Reagan Administration. "I think that the U.S. is attempting to create conditions for a major offensive on a military order," he said. "You can feel it in the air." Ortega's warnings of a pending Yanqui invasion are not new. Nicaraguan leaders usually interpret any major contra move as a prelude to U.S. intervention. But the message from Washington has grown more menacing in recent weeks, and while some political analysts view the attacks as the opening moves of the Reagan Administration's annual bid to Congress for increased contra funding...
...Reagan had denounced the Sandinista regime in his weekly Saturday radio address. Nicaragua, he said, was "a nation condemned to unrelenting cruelty by a clique of very cruel men, by a dictator in designer glasses."* Reagan charged that "some 3,000 Cuban military personnel now lead and advise the Nicaraguan forces," a number that is confirmed by U.S. intelligence reports. Sandinista officials claim that Nicaragua has only 800 noncombatant Cuban advisers. Reagan also repeated earlier Administration allegations that the Sandinistas had armed the M-19 guerrillas who stormed Bogota's Palace of Justice last month. Both Colombia's Foreign Minister...
...graver concern, he insisted, was the U.S. challenge. "There is only one pressure," he said. "That is the military, political and economic pressure of the United States." The Nicaraguan people, he added, "see the U.S.-sponsored counterrevolution destroy the schools, health centers, cooperatives. This causes people to commit themselves more readily to the patriotic military service." The "so-called Third World countries," he continued, must also worry. "If the U.S. invades Nicaragua," he said, "then this endangers the security of all developing countries...
Naturally, few Americans are used to the notion of a relatively wealthy Nicaraguan family being waited on by a maid in the comfort of their own house. But though the Barrios enjoy some of the trappings of their exalted family background (they are closely related to the influential Chamorros, who were the leading aristocrats on the side opposed to Somoza in the 1979 revolution), they play a considerable role rebuilding the country that faces constant terror from U.S.-sponsored contras. Their lifestyle and demeanor are accessible to the average Yankee viewer, yet their politics have been slandered from here...