Word: ortega
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...Whose side are you on?" Reagan's conservative aide wrote. "With the vote on Contra aid, the Democratic Party will reveal whether it stands with Ronald Reagan and the resistance--or [Nicaraguan leader] Daniel Ortega and the communists...
...sentiment is turning against the Nicaraguan government. "I sense a certain militancy growing," said one senior aide to Reagan. Congress last year limited U.S. help to the contras to $27 million in humanitarian supplies and cut off all military aid. Only days after that decision, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega Saavedra flew off to visit Moscow; interpreting the trip as a nose-thumbing gesture, some Congressmen said they regretted having rejected the military funding. Ortega's government has cracked down further on the freedom of the clergy and the press. "People have come to know the real nature of that...
...Ortega's domestic headaches are of the migraine sort. They range from scarcities of food, high prices and low wages to housing shortages, lagging production and a severe trade imbalance. Even so, Ortega seemed relatively untroubled by the widespread economic hardship. "More than the material well- being the revolution could have brought or can offer is the moral satisfaction of the people," he said. "They feel they can talk, participate, make demands, organize...
...anti-U.S. talk, though, Ortega admitted that the bonds between the two countries run deep. "We are not trying to eradicate the North American social and cultural influence," he said. "We would like to have relations with the U.S. as good as those we hold with the Soviet Union." As he drove into Managua, Ortega grew reflective. "We need peace," he said. "The future of the children is not the best here in Nicaragua...
FOOTNOTE: *The reference was to six pairs of $300 eyeglasses that Ortega purchased during a visit to New York City for the 40th anniversary of the United Nations in October...