Word: ortega
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what they see around them. "Many American values and customs which are very much part of the American way of life are seen (by Indians) as 'evil,' " writes Parmatma Saran, associate professor of sociology at Baruch College in Manhattan. "The American attitude toward sex . . . is viewed as immoral." Gaspar Ortega, a onetime Mexican prizefighter who is now a social worker in New Haven, Conn., is concerned about American treatment of the family. "I get disgusted when I see families separated. I blame the pressure of the dollar when both mother and father have to work and leave the kids...
...their own bill, which called for $10 million in aid for Nicaraguan refugees. They were appalled when their liberal colleagues joined Republicans in axing the Democratic measure, leaving the U.S. with no aid at all for the anti-Sandinistas. Then, within days of the vote, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra made a highly publicized journey to Moscow in search of increased Soviet aid. Said Joseph McDade of Pennsylvania, a key architect of the Republican victory in the House: "Some people realized they'd made a mistake in believing Ortega was an agrarian reformer...
Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto denounced the House action as "a vote in favor of death, destruction and suffering." President Ortega announced that as a result of the vote, he was lifting a five-month-old voluntary moratorium on arms imports. That raised the possibility that Ortega would buy Soviet-built MiG jets, a move that Washington has previously warned might provoke a U.S. military response. Asked after his speech whether he had MiGs on his mind, Ortega replied cryptically that "Nicaragua is almost the only country in Central America that does not have the ability to defend itself...
...Nicaragua, Ortega seized on the increased speculation about invasion plans as proof that his repeated warnings of U.S. intervention were not "something we invented, but rather something that is being discussed and prepared by American strategists." Meanwhile, the Sandinista army continued to press its attacks on contra bases along Nicaragua's borders in some of the most intense fighting of the more than three-year conflict. Government troops drove the rebels from all of their camps along the San Juan River, which forms part of the country's southern border with Costa Rica. Sandinista bombers then pounded guerrilla communications installations...
...past, Sandinista forces usually avoided crossing borders when chasing the rebels, who have been operating from base camps in both Honduras and Costa Rica. But now they seem to have little concern for such formalities. "We are going to keep on destroying the contras," Ortega told workers during a visit to a textile factory Tuesday night, "even though we know that the U.S. will try to take advantage of these confrontations to create greater tensions between us and Honduras and Costa Rica." By crossing the borders in "hot pursuit" of the contras, Nicaraguan soldiers could create a pretext for greater...