Word: sandinistas
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...casualties. A banner reads 7,000 NICARAGUANS MURDERED BY CIA CONTRAS. At a University of Florida rally in Gainesville, students on the other side of the issue call the contras "freedom fighters" and cheer as Marcos Zeledon, a leader of those rebels, decries Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government. In Los Angeles a large crowd gathers to hear liberal Actor Ed Asner debate with Lewis Lehrman, a conservative activist. The subject: "Should the U.S. resume aid to the contras...
...both sides in the Nicaraguan conflict, the U.S. has become a battleground. This war for the favor of the American public has grown increasingly urgent as Congress prepares to vote on President Reagan's request for $14 million in aid for the anti-Sandinista contras...
...including TIME, treated the report as the work of a neutral observer, even though the document owned up to a number of circumstances that might have raised some questions about its objectivity. For one thing, the investigation was conceived by a Washington law firm (Reichler & Appelbaum) that represents the Sandinista government. For another, the two fact finders, New York Lawyer Reed Brody and Washington Law Student James Bordelon, lived in a government residence while in Managua and were given office space by the Sandinistas. The report, written by Brody, also noted that the Sandinistas had indicated where some witnesses could...
...halfway around the world and of debatable strategic importance to Washington, Central America is virtually next door, an area where U.S. interests are obvious. Moreover, the amounts Washington is spending to help the government of El Salvador defeat leftist guerrillas and to assist the contra rebels fighting the Marxist Sandinista government of Nicaragua are pittances compared with the sums lavished on South Viet Nam even before the direct U.S. military intervention there. Still, the Administration every now and then feels obliged to deny that it has any plan or desire to send U.S. troops to fight in Central America. Weinberger...
...President's plan called for a cease-fire followed by talks between the opposition and the Sandinista government under the auspices of Nicaragua's Roman Catholic bishops. The aim of the negotiations would be to restore democracy, end any efforts by the Sandinistas to export their revolution, remove Soviet-bloc and other foreign military personnel from the country, and reduce Nicaragua's military forces to a level equal to those of the country's neighbors. The President's key point: while the talks are going on, Congress must release the $14 million earmarked for the contras but tied...