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...that policy seemed to be producing signs of an opportunity for diplomatic movement. Harassed by U.S.-backed guerrillas operating along its borders, the Marxist-led Sandinista government of Nicaragua gave subtle hints that it might be willing to make a deal. The suggestion was made by Sandinista Leaders Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Sergio Ramirez Mercado in interviews with TIME (see box), and was embedded in the usual condemnations of U.S. policy. Ortega and Ramirez not only restated Nicaragua's longstanding willingness to link the two issues in negotiations, but also reiterated their desire for such a dialogue with fresh...
...unwilling to do anything about its side of the putative bargain. For more than two years, the Sandinistas have offered to squelch any support from their territory for the Salvadoran guerrillas if the U.S. would only provide hard information about the location of the aid-an offer repeated in Ortega's interview with TIME. For nearly a year, the U.S. has pointed to the existence of a Salvadoran guerrilla command center in the suburban outskirts of the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. The Sandinistas have just as pointedly ignored the U.S. information. Nonetheless, officials in Washington have expressed interest...
That announcement may in the end mean a heightening of the undeclared war in Central America, exactly what Congress is worrying about. Last week a group of U.S. journalists received a personal glimpse of the clandestine conflict. At the invitation of Sandinista Leader Ortega, TIME Foreign Editor Henry Muller, Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan...
...Daniel Ortega, Saavedra, 37, head of Nicaragua's revolutionary junta and a leading member of the ruling nine-man National Directorate, is perhaps his country's most outspoken opponent of U.S. policy in Central America. His two-hour interview with TIME last week was heavy with criticism of what he sees as U.S. attempts to undermine Sandinista rule. Excerpts...
...border, was struck by the rebels last week. Two members of the local militia force, numbering about 25, were killed, along with a French microbiologist, Pierre Grosjean, 32, who was visiting the area to study leishmaniasis, an ulcerating skin disease. After the Rancho Grande assault, Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra, whose brother Daniel is coordinator of the Nicaraguan junta, declared confidently that "the counterrevolutionary forces are in serious difficulty...