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Nicaragua has reason to be concerned about Reagan's new willingness to wield American power. The U.S. has been covertly supporting contra terrorists attempting to overthrow that government. Daniel Ortega Saavedra, head of Nicaragua's junta, charged last week that the U.S. is preparing to manufacture a provocation that would justify an invasion. The revitalization of a Central American defense alliance known as CONDECA might serve as the vehicle to launch an American attack. The military chiefs of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala secretly met with the head of the U.S. Southern Command a month ago in Guatemala...
...probably telling the truth. Bouterse may have feared that he would surfer the same fate as his friend Maurice Bishop, the Marxist Prime Minister of Grenada who was deposed and killed. Bouterse hinted that he suspected Cuban complicity in Bishop's overthrow. Perhaps too, Bouterse, who seems motivated primarily by a desire to maintain his repressive regime, did some political recalculating in the wake of the U.S. invasion of Grenada. He may have concluded that leftist revolution is no longer the wave of the future in the Caribbean and that he should make himself less obnoxious...
...isthmus is specific persistent. "I believe there is a sharp difference between what the Administration is doing in Lebanon and what it is trying to do in Nicaragua," pronounced House Speaker Tip O'Neill. "In Lebanon, it is supporting a government. In Nicaragua, it is trying to overthrow one. The United States should not be engaged militarily in trying to overthrow other governments...
...contras admit they seek the overthrow of the Sandinistas, but the Reagan Administration still claims that the CIA aid is intended only to distract the Nicaraguans from aiding the Salvadoran insurgents. The amendment passed by the House last week provides $50 million strictly for such arms interdiction by "friendly" Central American countries...
...under army-imposed house arrest in the capital of St. George's when a mob of supporters burst past the guards and carried him outdoors. To shouts of "We get we leader back," Bishop joined a crowd of 10,000 that surged through the city streets protesting his overthrow...