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...human rights abuses or for its reliance on the military assistance of the Cubans and the Soviets, which began, one may recall, during the Carter years--that is, before the U.S. decided to fund the contra rebels. Never have I heard COCA question the legitimacy of a Nicaraguan government that prohibits independent polling of its citizens and has done everything it could to squash the free speech of the opposition, as the editors of La Prensa would attest...
...fire, he said, was merely to hold the U.S. and Honduras to the terms of the accord signed last August to dismantle the rebel operation by Dec. 5. The U.S., to guarantee that the vote takes place, has supported the contras in their refusal to disband until after the Nicaraguan elections, though it has prohibited offensive operations. In this regard, Ortega's ploy may have worked. Sandinista and rebel leaders appear likely to hold new talks soon...
...then, did Ortega venture so much opprobrium abroad to score points at home in a race that, by most accounts, he was already winning? The answer may lie in a poll published two weeks ago by the Nicaraguan Institute of Public Opinion. With nearly 90% of Nicaragua's 1.97 million voters registered, large numbers of them as the result of a Sandinista campaign, Ortega led the opposition by 26% to 21%. Yet the Institute's sample showed that 46% remained undecided -- more than enough to make any candidate for office extremely uneasy...
Ortega's orchestration of their meeting and his stunning announcement about ending the Nicaraguan cease-fire brought a flare of public anger from Bush the following day. "It was instantly, gratuitously offensive, and I felt I had to draw the line," said Bush last week. "Ortega abused the hospitality of the other nations. He showed himself as a small person...
Intrigued as well as irritated, Bush kept up his character study throughout the two-day summit in San Jose. The night that El Salvador's Alfredo Cristiani criticized Ortega publicly, Bush looked down the table to his right at the tilted chin, the solemn profile of the Nicaraguan President. "He just stared off into the distant horizon," Bush recalled. "There was in the room a sense of total outrage at what Ortega had done...