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...Nicasio Ortega...
...bridges near the Honduran border. Among the law's provisions: prior censorship and detention without due process. As the contra attacks have continued, the Sandinistas have successfully appealed to nationalist sentiment while using the external menace as an excuse for not fulfilling earlier promises. Says Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra: "For a country to achieve democracy, it needs stability." The Sandinistas have also discovered that the fervor of their young people has provided them with an effective, albeit inexperienced corps of militiamen eager to confront the enemy...
...years. "We made no promises to the bourgeoisie," says Junta Member SergioRamirez Mercado. "We made no promises to the U.S. We made our promises to the poor." Indeed, the Sandinistas repeatedly assert that continued U.S. hostility, particularly through support of the contras, guarantees a continued clampdown in Nicaragua. Warns Ortega: "The Reagan Administration can force us to take steps we do not want to take." Still unanswered is the question of what course Ortega and his colleagues would follow if they could not conveniently blame the U.S. for their own actions...
...also say that Nicaraguan assistance for the rebels in El Salvador, which the U.S. has found difficult to prove publicly, has diminished in recent months because the Sandinistas are too busy at home to meddle in their neighbors' affairs. But the gambit is risky. Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega warned last week that if the contras step up their attacks, Sandinista forces would pursue them to the border areas of Honduras and Costa Rica. If so, the "covert" war could become even more overt than it already...
...both El Salvador and Nicaragua, guerrillas engaged government troops in some of the most intense fighting in months. In El Salvador, the U.S. supports the government, while in Marxist-led Nicaragua the U.S. has, through the CIA, helped finance the insurgents. To no one's surprise, Daniel Ortega Saavedra, 37, coordinator of Nicaragua's ruling junta, lashed out at the U.S. during his address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York City last week, charging that the Reagan Administration had "declared war on the people of Nicaragua." He claimed that U.S.-backed contras (counterrevolutionaries) had killed...