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...MAJORITY opinion overlooks much of what has actually happened in Central America over the past six years. Consider the last two years of the Carter Administration--El Salvador descended into a bloody civil war a revolution in Nicaragua was followed by a ruthless purging of non-Sandinista revolutionaries, and the resultant junta set out to militarize the Nicaraguan people on a soul never before seen in Central America, except possible in Soviet-supported Cuba. Considering the last four years in comparison. We are extremely skeptical of the flippant dismissal of the Reagan approach as "peace destroying...
Pehaps the most curious desire of many American liberals has been to negotiate with the Sandinista regime at all costs; without a matching concern for the outcome of any such talks or the welfare of the Central American people. It seems that Americans have forgotten that the original 1979 Nicaraguan revolution against the rightly-hated Somoza regime was broadly-based. Its leadership reflected this pluralism. The Carter Administration aided the ruling junta because it wanted to help such a multifaceted uprising...
...revolutionary junta, who told the delegates that the U.S. planned to launch an invasion of his country on the same date, an accusation that a State Department spokesman dismissed as "preposterous." Meanwhile, it appeared that a final breakdown may have occurred in negotiations between Nicaragua's Sandinista government and a group of democratic opponents who want a postponement of that country's scheduled Nov. 4 elections...
Ortega's invasion announcement appeared to be part of a deliberate media blitz by the Sandinistas, who, according to a confidential internal document leaked to the U.S. embassy in Managua, intend "to introduce our electoral campaign into the U.S. electoral campaign." Whatever the Nicaraguan motives, TIME has learned that the anti-Sandinista rebels known as contrasindeed have plans to launch a series of attacks in Nicaragua within the next two weeks. According to contra spokesmen, the offensive would be the first in which the various rebel groups strike simultaneously, forcing the Sandinistas to spread their defenses more thinly than...
Nicaraguan battle lines of a different kind seemed to have been drawn irrevocably at a meeting of the 58-nation Socialist International in Rio de Janeiro. Politicians at the meeting tried mightily to broker an agreement between the Sandinistas and their foremost democratic opponent, Arturo Cruz Porras, in order to allow Cruz and his backers to participate in the Nov. 4 elections, which have become an acid test of the Sandinistas' democratic intentions. Opposition forces have argued that they need more time to mount an effective campaign. Cruz and Sandinista Directorate Member Bayardo Arce Castano apparently agreed...