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TIME'S editors met last year with Daniel Ortega Saavedra, a leader of Nicaragua's Sandinista government, and also with his contra guerrilla opponent, Eden Pastora Gomez. The exchanges can be remarkably frank, as was the case with Nicaragua's Ortega. (In a gracious prelude to a hard-hitting conversation, he presented Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Henry Grunwald and TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave with a painting by a Nicaraguan artist...
...ministers of the so-called Contadora group of countries (Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama) appeared before the United Nations General Assembly to declare their confidence that a peace treaty for the region will be ready to be signed as of Oct. 15. Their U.N. appearance followed that of Daniel Ortega Saavedra, coordinator of Nicaragua's revolutionary junta, who told the delegates that the U.S. planned to launch an invasion of his country on the same date, an accusation that a State Department spokesman dismissed as "preposterous." Meanwhile, it appeared that a final breakdown may have occurred in negotiations between...
...Ortega's invasion announcement appeared to be part of a deliberate media blitz by the Sandinistas, who, according to a confidential internal document leaked to the U.S. embassy in Managua, intend "to introduce our electoral campaign into the U.S. electoral campaign." Whatever the Nicaraguan motives, TIME has learned that the anti-Sandinista rebels known as contrasindeed have plans to launch a series of attacks in Nicaragua within the next two weeks. According to contra spokesmen, the offensive would be the first in which the various rebel groups strike simultaneously, forcing the Sandinistas to spread their defenses more thinly than...
...electoral processes," including freedom of assembly and speech, as well as equal access to the media. It also requires "electoral calendars that assure parties of participation under equal conditions." The Sandinistas concede that their maneuver was aimed at putting the U.S. on the diplomatic defensive. Sandinista Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra declared last week that "the United States has been saying for some time that it supports a peace agreement for Central America. We are putting their intentions to the test...
Katherine Ortega's role as Treasurer of the U.S. is much more than "largely honorific" [NATION, Aug. 20]. Ortega, the G.O.P. keynote speaker, is responsible for three major agencies within the Department of the Treasury: the U.S. Savings Bonds Division, the Bureau of Mint and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. She supervises more than 5,000 employees and manages a budget of some $280 million. Under her supervision, holdings of U.S. savings bonds have risen nearly 11%, to well over $73 billion. Ortega is a decisive, take-charge leader...