Word: nicaraguan
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...addition to four-hour intensive Spanish classes five mornings a week, the thirty students for each five-week term will live with Nicaraguan families and will participate in seminars on Nicaraguan history in the afternoon...
Beverly Treumann, one of the school's founders and a participant in the Nicaraguan government's 1980 literacy campaign, said yesterday that the country is much less ravaged than the American press indicates...
Treumann said that the Nicaraguan government is "very excited" about the project, and, along with the national teachers' association, it is helping set up the school
Washington received another boost last week in Brazil. The government of President Joao Baptista Figueiredo announced that it had seized four Libyan transport aircraft loaded with a reported 200 tons of illicit arms and explosives. The destination of the clandestine shipment: the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. For the U.S., the discovery constituted welcome proof that leftist Central American insurgencies are being abetted from outside the hemisphere. Nicaraguan Ambassador to Brazil Ernesto Gutierrez implausibly said that his government knew nothing about the contents of the airlift...
...most determinedly Marxist-Leninist of the country's guerrilla organizations. According to the Sandinistas, he took his own life on April 12, after the equally mysterious assassination in Nicaragua a week earlier of his No. 2 guerrilla commander, Melida Anaya Montes, better known as Ana Maria. The Nicaraguans announced the arrest of five other Salvadoran guerrillas, all members of Cayetano Carpio's group, in connection with the Anaya Montes murder. Among those detained was Rogelio Bazzaglia, described as Cayetano Carpio's "trusted lieutenant." Few people believed the Nicaraguans were telling the whole story behind the two deaths...