Word: nicaraguan
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...group of Nicaraguan officials visited the Law School this week, a month after the cancellation of an earlier trip because of difficulties in obtaining visas...
...From the moment Kissinger raised the subject on his arrival in El Salvador, the panel hammered away at one issue: human rights. The commission met with Interim President Alvaro Magana. Kissinger stated that the U.S. depended on El Salvador as a front line against Cuban-and Nicaraguan-inspired subversion in the region. But the commission members flatly condemned the country's abysmal human rights record (see box). In a tense confrontation with right-wing Constituent Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland angrily questioned D'Aubuisson's charges that Samuel Maldonado, leader...
With at least five camps in Honduras and an army of about 6,000, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.) is the largest contra faction and the biggest recipient of the funds the CIA has earmarked for the war. F.D.N. leaders say that the overwhelming majority of their followers are peasants who have become disillusioned by the Sandinista revolution and that only 3% are former members of Somoza's National Guard. But the presence of ex-guardsmen in the F.D.N.'s military command has allowed the Sandinistas A hit-and-run to paint the contras as reactionaries who only...
...smallest of the contra factions, the Nicaraguan Democratic Union, and its military wing, the Nicaraguan Revolutionary Armed Forces, are composed primarily of businessmen, labor leaders and students who originally were allied with the Sandinistas in the fight against Somoza. Like the F.D.N. and MISURA, they have been using bases in Honduras to challenge the Sandinistas' northern border...
...Reagan Administration says it is satisfied with what the contras have accomplished, despite their divisions and discord. Officials credit the rebels' pressure and U.S. military maneuvers in the region for the Sandinistas' new interest in seeking a regional peace settlement. They also say that Nicaraguan assistance for the rebels in El Salvador, which the U.S. has found difficult to prove publicly, has diminished in recent months because the Sandinistas are too busy at home to meddle in their neighbors' affairs. But the gambit is risky. Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega warned last week that if the contras...