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...good reason why morale is high: at the moment, the Sandinista army seems to have the upper hand in its four-year-old war against the U.S.-backed opposition forces known as the contras. "When we are attacked, we have to respond with fire," declares Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra (see box). The main insurgent group, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), declared earlier this year that it had infiltrated 14,000 of its guerrillas into Nicaragua from Honduras and positioned an additional 3,000 along the border. Last week the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry charged that the border forces were poised...
...hearing of the attack, recalled his ambassador from Managua and put the armed forces on general alert along the 500-mile border with Nicaragua. Having conferred with U.S. Ambassador John Ferch, Suazo Cordova said the army would "use all necessary measures to repel the aggression." Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra called the Honduran attack an "invasion" and blamed...
...their own bill, which called for $10 million in aid for Nicaraguan refugees. They were appalled when their liberal colleagues joined Republicans in axing the Democratic measure, leaving the U.S. with no aid at all for the anti-Sandinistas. Then, within days of the vote, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra made a highly publicized journey to Moscow in search of increased Soviet aid. Said Joseph McDade of Pennsylvania, a key architect of the Republican victory in the House: "Some people realized they'd made a mistake in believing Ortega was an agrarian reformer...
...scorn was clear in Ronald Reagan's voice. "The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug," he said of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, "did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. He made his choice long ago." The President was speaking last week at a fund raiser in Oklahoma City, but his real audience was members of Congress who were once again considering the resumption of aid to the contra rebels struggling against Ortega's Sandinista regime...
...urban centers and several thousand lives would be lost on both sides, Barnes was told. "But then the Sandinistas would control the countryside," he says. From there they could wage a guerrilla war that would require a prolonged military occupation and counterinsurgency campaign. Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra was quoted as saying, "This is not going to be like fighting on the plains of Europe in the Second World War." A Rand Corp. study estimates such an operation could require at least 100,000 combat troops...