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...Hollywood the star-studded Committee of Concern for Central America sponsors lectures and debates featuring such celebrities as Mike Farrell (M*A*S*H) and Robert Foxworth (Falcon Crest). When Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra visited Los Angeles last fall, the group welcomed him with receptions and a Beverly Hills garden party. Oscar-winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler, with the backing of fantasy-film Mogul George Lucas, this summer will release a dramatic movie that is critical of U.S. policy in Nicaragua. "Of course we know the political impact that a feature film on Central America will have," says Wexler. "That...
...payment of roughly $2,000 to cover Brody's food, transportation and lodging expenses. Payan also charged that witnesses - interviewed by Brody were "manipulated peasants" whose testimony was sometimes edited to remove any pro-contra sentiments. According to Payan, Brody often displayed a photograph of himself hugging President Daniel Ortega Saavedra and called Ronald Reagan a "fascist...
...Administration's plan is similar to one proposed five weeks earlier in San Jose, Costa Rica, by a broad coalition of Nicaraguan opposition figures. This proposal also urged talks mediated by the church. It would have permitted President Daniel Ortega Saavedra to remain in office until new elections were held. The Sandinistas rejected the San Jose proposal. "We will not talk to the dogs, but to the dogs' owners," said one official, maintaining that the contras were controlled...
...continuation of this legend. Perhaps a tenure of some sort might be in order, to help defray the enormous phone bills his life's work must incur. Maybe a tour on the lecture circuit, masked of course, would raise the available funds. Anyone who pays to see Daniel Ortega lambast the United States in Spanish would certainly pay to see the Action Man discuss his views on the world situation. He wouldn't have to stay at the Hyatt Regency, either...
...Regan says. He is constantly being hustled. His role is to hear the pure tones, to sort out the voices that are most often right and get them to the President. Partly this is a matter of mastering new information. Regan found that the Ortega they talked about at the White House was Nicaragua's leftist leader and not Katherine Ortega, Treasurer of the U.S., who signs the money. On TV he was taken aback when asked what the Administration planned to do about AIDS, not the balance of trade...