Word: nicaraguan
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...left the most shadowy of paths. It was rumored, but never proved, that he tried to bribe high officials in the Nixon and Carter Administrations. According to Justice Department officials, he consorted with Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. In August, Columnist Jack Anderson placed him in the Nicaraguan bush. A month later, NBC reported that he was masterminding a major drug-smuggling operation out of the Bahamas. But Financier Robert Vesco, who fled the U.S. in late 1972 after being indicted on charges of swindling mutual-fund investors out of $224 million, has not surfaced publicly since he was expelled...
...alert may have been part of an attempt by the Sandinista regime to revive flagging popular support for its policies. But Nicaraguan leaders also seemed convinced that an attack is in the offing. Officials said they would guarantee the safety of all foreign nationals, including U.S. embassy personnel. Such assurances were presumably aimed at preventing invaders from justifying an assault on the grounds of rescuing citizens. During a visit to Panama for talks with President Ricardo de la Espriella, Nicaraguan Junta Leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra laid out a number of possible scenarios for an invasion, including an incursion by rebels...
...confirm some of Ortega's worst fears, the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.) announced last week that it had launched a new "general offensive" against the Sandinista government. Meanwhile, a Nicaraguan radio station claimed that several hundred contras who support former Sandinista Leader Edén Pastora Gómez were massing on the Costa Rican border. The rebels said they were fighting in ten separate locations in southern Nicaragua, though the Sandinistas acknowledged fighting in only one. The rebel announcement came as something of an embarrassment to Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge. Even as the attacks...
Still, the rattled nerves in Managua could only have pleased the Reagan Administration in Washington, which has long sought to curb Nicaraguan support for leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. The four nations that form the so-called Contadora Group (Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela) announced last week that all the region's governments, including even a wary Nicaragua, had agreed on a schedule for substantive discussions about a comprehensive Central American peace plan. If the Big Pine II exercises and Grenada invasion have encouraged Nicaragua's cooperation, said a State Department official tartly, "so much the better...
...Nicaragua, for example, is questionable. Like many liberal and left wing critics of current U.S. policy, LaFeber asserts that American over-reaction to Sandinista actually pushed Nicaragua into the arms of Cuba and the Soviets. A closer reality in the explanation given by former junta members that argues that Nicaraguan shift to the left was the result of the Marxist inspired Sandinistas emerging from an anti-Somoza coalition as the predominant political power. One fact LaFeber doesn't cite is that only eight months after rebels poured into Managua, and as U.S. aid was still coming in on a steady...