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...Ortega has used well-timed gestures in the past to sway Congress. Shortly after the Reagan Administration made known its intent last September to seek $270 million in contra funding, Ortega went on a public-relations offensive. He announced the reopening of two opposition news outlets, the newspaper La Prensa and Radio Catolica, and pardoned 16 jailed rebel sympathizers. Sensing defeat, the U.S. Administration scaled back its request to just $30 million. Still, Ortega pressed on. He agreed to indirect talks with the contras and designated Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo as the mediator. In the end, Congress granted only...
...triumphs abroad can be offset by pressures back home. In Managua, it did not escape notice that Ortega had forsaken once immutable Sandinista positions, most notably a pledge that they would never negotiate with the contras, whom they refer to as U.S. puppets. After Ortega announced the talks, La Prensa's headline read SANDINISTAS SURRENDER. That theme was echoed in the streets and at the markets. "We have been going backward ever since the Sandinistas came to power," said Rosario Arroliga Quintanilla as she shooed flies from the filets of pork displayed at * her small stand at Managua's Oriental...
...contras' political affairs and produces a steady stream of anti-Sandinista propaganda. The next day Arias counterbalanced his anti-contra blast with a blunt four-page letter accusing Nicaragua's Ortega of failing to comply with the peace agreement. While the Sandinistas allowed a single opposition newspaper, La Prensa, to reopen last October, they have shown little readiness to allow broader political freedoms. Admonished Arias: "There is no room for legal structures that deny democratic process...
...Marxist-oriented comandantes will honor their commitments to democratic reform and peaceful coexistence with their neighbors, or are merely making temporary moves to ensure the destruction of the contras. Since the signing of the accord, Nicaragua has taken several small steps, among them reopening the opposition daily La Prensa and Radio Catolica, inviting three exiled priests to return home and beginning talks with Nicaragua's opposition parties. But, warns an Arias aide, "we see all kinds of indications that Ortega would like to wriggle out of his commitments...
...process set in motion by the Guatemala accord has already yielded some results in Nicaragua. In a succession of gestures that the Reagan Administration has called "cosmetic," President Daniel Ortega Saavedra invited three exiled priests to return home, granted pardons to 16 imprisoned foreigners, reopened the opposition daily La Prensa, lifted the ban on Radio Catolica and proclaimed unilateral cease-fires in four remote war zones. The Sandinistas contend that these moves demonstrate their commitment to the plan and to the region-wide cease-fire scheduled to begin Nov. 5. The White House counters that no peace can endure...