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...wills between Nicaragua's left-wing government, which besides d'Escoto includes two other Catholic priests of Cabinet rank,* and the country's mainline church, in which 85% of Nicaraguan citizens profess membership. In proclaiming a state of emergency that suspended most civil rights last October, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra cited as its principal cause the security threat posed by the U.S.-supported contra forces poised on Nicaragua's borders. But many Nicaraguans believe that the directive was largely aimed at curbing the power of the church. Obando labeled the decree a "step toward totalitarianism...
Democratic leaders who had fought the aid request could only sputter their annoyance with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra. It was the second time he had undercut a potential victory in Washington: four days after the House had rejected contra funding eleven months ago, he embarked on a well- publicized and ill-timed pilgrimage to Moscow. House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who engineered the most recent defeat of the contra aid package, termed the invasion a "tremendous blunder" and disgustedly called Ortega "a bumbling, incompetent Marxist-Leninist, a Communist." Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont quipped sarcastically that...
Reagan's intent is unambiguous: to stop Gaddafi from fomenting terrorism and to stop Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra from spreading Marxist revolution. Indeed, Reagan would not mind going one step further and getting both men right off the world stage. But eliminating such nemeses is not so easy. For all his make-my-day bluster, Reagan is no less bound than were his immediate predecessors by rules of military engagement that, while rooted in the best democratic traditions, have been carried to unreal extremes: American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over...
...President Daniel Ortega Saavedra...
...potential Soviet "beachhead" in North America, a haven for dope smugglers and terrorists. The country is in the grip of "an outlaw regime" of Marxist-Leninists who torture pastors and burn down synagogues. Left to fester, Reagan warned the nation last week, the Nicaragua of Sandinista Leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra will become a "second Cuba"--worse, a "second Libya, right on the doorstep of the United States...