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...near the Honduran border. Among the law's provisions: prior censorship and detention without due process. As the contra attacks have continued, the Sandinistas have successfully appealed to nationalist sentiment while using the external menace as an excuse for not fulfilling earlier promises. Says Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra: "For a country to achieve democracy, it needs stability." The Sandinistas have also discovered that the fervor of their young people has provided them with an effective, albeit inexperienced corps of militiamen eager to confront the enemy...
...both El Salvador and Nicaragua, guerrillas engaged government troops in some of the most intense fighting in months. In El Salvador, the U.S. supports the government, while in Marxist-led Nicaragua the U.S. has, through the CIA, helped finance the insurgents. To no one's surprise, Daniel Ortega Saavedra, 37, coordinator of Nicaragua's ruling junta, lashed out at the U.S. during his address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York City last week, charging that the Reagan Administration had "declared war on the people of Nicaragua." He claimed that U.S.-backed contras (counterrevolutionaries) had killed...
Mexico has used its Contadora connection to put quiet pressure on the Nicaraguan regime. It was probably no coincidence that Nicaraguan Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra waited only two days to express support for the Contadora group's July 17 declaration. Mexico, which had been providing Nicaragua with crude oil at 100% credit, recently told Nicaragua that it will now have to start paying off its oil bill...
...limited strategic importance, its destruction was a symbolic warning that contras were living and working in the area. Taken together, the two assaults indicated that the relative lull that had followed the contras' offensive last spring was over. In a feat of good timing, Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra appeared before parliament last week to propose a military draft that would make all men between 17 and 25 eligible for two full years of active service, followed by participation in the reserves until...
...about the same time, the Sandinista leadership was softening its own stance in hopes of an accommodation with the U.S. To a crowd of 75,000 celebrating the fourth anniversary of the overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan Leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra announced that his government "had decided to make a new effort to contribute to peace" and was willing to join in the multilateral regional discussions that the U.S. has sought. Ortega proposed a six-point peace plan that would prohibit arms sales to both the government and the rebels in El Salvador, as well as military...