Word: nicaraguan
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...Sandinistas have retained a New York-based public relations firm, Agendas International, headed by Donald J. Casey and Darryl Hunt, to analyze U.S. media coverage of the Nicaraguan government. The Sandinista cause has also been aided by Los Angeles Media Consultant Bill Zimmerman, who helped direct the campaigns of Presidential Hopeful Gary Hart and Chicago Mayor Harold Washington...
Florida, with its large population of Cuban and Nicaraguan exiles, has been the scene of the most vigorous anti-Sandinista demonstrations. Contra leaders were honored in Miami last month with parties and a parade during an official Nicaraguan Liberty Week. The star attraction was Fernando Chamorro, head of one of the smaller rebel armies. "We are trying to get a little visibility, to let the American public know us," said Chamorro. "We are here with great optimism and hope that the American government, and more important, the American people, will back us in our fight." Other groups arguing the contra...
...like a scene out of Woody Allen's Bananas. A ragged band of soldiers played The Yellow Rose of Texas in 110 degrees heat as two helicopters, their blades whipping up dust in the clearing, touched down at the base camp in Honduras, three miles from the Nicaraguan border. Out of one jumped Texas Governor Mark White, in combat boots and freshly pressed camouflage fatigues. Out of the other, a platoon of reporters, who quickly surrounded him. The Governor also brought 400 lbs. of Texas barbecued beef, 7,200 flour tortillas, 100 lbs. of pinto beans, and buckets of barbecue...
...Salvador, Honduras' traditional enemy. Hondurans worry about a collapse of the contra campaign that would cause all 12,000 or so rebels to flee Nicaragua and wander through their country in bands, toting American arms. Already, the country is feeling the strain of serving as a haven for Nicaraguan youths who flee the Sandinista military draft and arrive penniless in Honduras. Fundamentally, though, Honduras has cast its lot with the U.S. One of its most insistent demands is for a stronger U.S. guarantee of its security than that provided by a 1954 treaty. As long as American troops...
...their neighbors. Washington sometimes inflates the menace posed by Nicaragua's Soviet-aided military buildup; Reagan was simply wrong when he declared in 1983 that Managua's armed forces exceed those of all other Central American countries combined. But, counting full-time soldiers and militia on active duty, the Nicaraguan army of 62,000 is by far the largest of any single country in the area. Nicaragua has 150 tanks; Guatemala has ten and the other Central American nations none at all. Though the Sandinistas are deficient in combat aircraft, they boast 36 helicopters, including at least ten Soviet-made...