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President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, meanwhile, pressed Nicaragua's case abroad. After a quick stop in Cuba, Ortega continued on to Europe. In Madrid, he invited Spain to join his recently proposed international commission to monitor Nicaragua's compliance with the peace plan. Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez accepted, provided that other Central American leaders approved Spain's participation. Ortega then flew to Rome, where he had a 30-minute private audience with Pope John Paul II. It was the first meeting between the two men since the Pontiff's tense visit to Nicaragua in 1983, and the welcome was decidedly chilly...
Congressmen on both sides of the aid debate predicted victory this week, with the White House confident that enough of the undecided will vote its way on the ground that they cannot trust Ortega. But the contra leadership was taking no chances. Despite the importance of the talks in San Jose last week, top contra leaders were where they felt the action counted most -- in Washington, on Capitol Hill, lobbying for their cause...
...Managua's policies. "A good lawyer," he argues, "represents clients, not causes." True, but Reichler now has a paternal interest as well in the Nicaraguans. In 1984 he and his wife adopted a Nicaraguan baby. Her name is Jessica Danielle, in honor of Reichler's good friend, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra...
Indeed, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega suggested this last month when he said that the Sandinistas would never cede their political hegemony. As Robert Leiken, currently a visiting scholar at the Center for International Affairs has written, Ortega's "strategy is clear... he will delay lifting the state of emergency and granting broad amnesty and the other democratic reforms stipulated in the Guatemalan accords until the contras have been disbanded and defunded." Others have echoed Leiken's fears that the Sandinistas are cynically using the peace process to squash internal resistance to their regime...
...even this moderate, judicious plan is already in jeopardy. Republican leaders in the House, miffed at losing the vote for military aid, have already sworn to sink the package. Meanwhile, Ortega pledged in a speech the day after the vote that Nicaragua would oppose any form of nonmilitary aid to the contras and made the outrageous claim that "we now have full democracy and full freedom of expression in this country." Tell that to the 9 000 political prisoners in Nicaragua and the still heavily-censored editors of La Prensa, the Nicaraguan opposition newspaper...