Word: ortega
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Alfredo Cesar, one of her chief strategists, promises she will stay close to home once the campaign formally opens Dec. 4. But Dona Violeta needs more than that to defeat the well-organized Ortega. U.N.O. must reach its natural constituency among those hurt most by the Sandinistas. Even the U.S. is uncertain how strongly to back her. While Ortega is one of Bush's least favorite heads of state, lavishing U.S. resources on a lost cause could succeed only in making Ortega more difficult to deal with in a second term. Still, the U.S. will spend $9 million to support...
...Contras insist on resumption of the cease-fire President Daniel Ortega ended last week, a general amnesty and a visit by a Contra delegation to Nicaragua to make sure it is safe for the rebels to return...
...Ortega said U.S. aid to the Contras should be used only to demobilize and resettle the army that has been trying to overthrow his leftist Sandinista government...
...administration said Bush was consulting with leaders in Central America to bring diplomatic pressure on Ortega to reverse the decision...
...Ortega contends the Contras have routinely violated the truce since it was signed in March 1988, a month after Congress suspended military aid to the rebels. He said that in 19 months, Contra attacks in Nicaragua killed more than 730 people and wounded more than 1000, mostly civilians...