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...Hollywood the star-studded Committee of Concern for Central America sponsors lectures and debates featuring such celebrities as Mike Farrell (M*A*S*H) and Robert Foxworth (Falcon Crest). When Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra visited Los Angeles last fall, the group welcomed him with receptions and a Beverly Hills garden party. Oscar-winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler, with the backing of fantasy-film Mogul George Lucas, this summer will release a dramatic movie that is critical of U.S. policy in Nicaragua. "Of course we know the political impact that a feature film on Central America will have," says Wexler. "That...
...roughly $2,000 to cover Brody's food, transportation and lodging expenses. Payan also charged that witnesses - interviewed by Brody were "manipulated peasants" whose testimony was sometimes edited to remove any pro-contra sentiments. According to Payan, Brody often displayed a photograph of himself hugging President Daniel Ortega Saavedra and called Ronald Reagan a "fascist...
...Administration's plan is similar to one proposed five weeks earlier in San Jose, Costa Rica, by a broad coalition of Nicaraguan opposition figures. This proposal also urged talks mediated by the church. It would have permitted President Daniel Ortega Saavedra to remain in office until new elections were held. The Sandinistas rejected the San Jose proposal. "We will not talk to the dogs, but to the dogs' owners," said one official, maintaining that the contras were controlled...
...Julio Maria Sanguinetti, 49, as the tiny South American country's first democratically elected President in 13 years. But for much of the hemisphere, the spotlight in the capital of Montevideo was focused last week on two of the official guests at the ceremonies, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra and U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz. The question: After days of high-profile posturing by their respective governments, would the two men agree to talk over their differences...
...numbers of middle-class parents are sending their sons out of the country. Many Nicaraguans have grown increasingly disenchanted with the Sandinistas over the past few months. Consumer goods remain in short supply, and prices have spiraled upward. The country's economic straits are "hellish," says President Daniel Ortega Saavedra. Yet the number who are angry enough to support the contras continues to be small, perhaps because the rebels have done such a poor job of defining what they stand for, aside from the overthrow of the Sandinistas...