Word: ortega
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Daniel Ortega is often called shy, soft-spoken, retiring: "the reluctant ruler." Not Murillo. The First Lady maintains the kind of profile that goes with $300 glasses. A darling of the radical chic, the articulate, outspoken Murillo counts Bianca Jagger (also a Nicaraguan) and Harry Belafonte among her friends. In New York City for January's large international writers' congress, Murillo was escorted by Little Steven Van Zandt, a rock songwriter who produced the antiapartheid anthem Sun City. She had planned to attend an antidrug seminar in Atlanta last week at which Nancy Reagan was hostess, but did not obtain...
...Daniel is a simple man who doesn't like pretension," said a close Ortega adviser. When he visited New York City last fall to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the United Nations, Ortega kept to his usual running schedule and took an early-morning jog through Central Park. He generally runs from five to six miles a day. For dinner, he sought out local Chinese restaurants...
...When I was in prison, I never thought I would see the triumph of the revolution," Ortega recalls. "All I thought about was the fight against Somoza and how to get out of prison." It is common wisdom that the Sandinistas have had difficulty getting used to governing rather than opposing. Says Ortega: "I never thought about being President of Nicaragua." But now he is, and in the hard months ahead, as the U.S. vacillates on the question of contra aid and the Nicaraguan economy sputters, Ortega faces tough tests not as a revolutionary but as a politician...
...potential Soviet "beachhead" in North America, a haven for dope smugglers and terrorists. The country is in the grip of "an outlaw regime" of Marxist-Leninists who torture pastors and burn down synagogues. Left to fester, Reagan warned the nation last week, the Nicaragua of Sandinista Leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra will become a "second Cuba"--worse, a "second Libya, right on the doorstep of the United States...
...President is not guilty of posturing about the Nicaraguan threat. He truly believes. To him, Nicaragua's Ortega, in his Castro-style fatigues, is not merely a Third World revolutionary who delights in tweaking Uncle Sam, but an agent of the Kremlin, bent on spreading Communism through the hemisphere. When the question of what to do about the Sandinistas comes up at National Security Council meetings, Reagan assumes what one aide calls his "Churchillian mode." The normally amiable and relaxed President sits up straight in his chair; his eyes flash, his lips tighten, and his hands ball up into fists...