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...white Toyota, while an armed, Soviet-made helicopter provided surveillance from the air. When Ortega, 40, reached his destination, a makeshift plaza, he quickly took a seat behind a long table. "Face the People," a folksy forum that brings ordinary Nicaraguans into contact with officials of the Marxist-oriented Sandinista government, was under...
...peasants? (Yes. That very afternoon he would award 375 families some 6,000 acres of land.) Would he help arm the townspeople against the U.S.-sponsored contra rebels? (No. Nicaragua, he said, has no spare firearms.) Ortega rarely missed an opportunity to promote the goals and concerns of the Sandinista regime. "The revolution is not yet finished," he declared...
Indeed, only hours before, President Reagan had denounced the Sandinista regime in his weekly Saturday radio address. Nicaragua, he said, was "a nation condemned to unrelenting cruelty by a clique of very cruel men, by a dictator in designer glasses."* Reagan charged that "some 3,000 Cuban military personnel now lead and advise the Nicaraguan forces," a number that is confirmed by U.S. intelligence reports. Sandinista officials claim that Nicaragua has only 800 noncombatant Cuban advisers. Reagan also repeated earlier Administration allegations that the Sandinistas had armed the M-19 guerrillas who stormed Bogota's Palace of Justice last month...
...words between Washington and Managua has heated up since Dec. 2, when contras downed a Soviet-built Sandinista Mi-8 helicopter with a Soviet- made SA-7 surface-to-air missile. The U.S. charged that the chopper was piloted by a Cuban, and that the co-pilot was also a Cuban. It was the first time the contras had used such rockets in battle. Declared Secretary of State George Shultz: "Fine, I'm all for it. I hope they get more of these weapons." The incident marked a turning point of sorts for the Sandinistas. "Now that...
Along with Shultz, McFarlane supported using limited military force to achieve diplomatic aims. This often pitted his advice against that of Weinberger, who is more cautious about taking military risks. He strongly backed U.S. funding of the contra forces opposing the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and lobbied skillfully against the eroding support for it in Congress. His work on the Hill also was influential in saving the MX missile program. He managed to take some of the anti-Soviet sting out of presidential speeches written by Patrick Buchanan, a conservative columnist brought to the White House by Regan. Republican Senator...