Word: sandinistas
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...puzzling Sandinista move...
Suddenly the pugnacious, increasingly hard-pressed Sandinista government of Nicaragua seemed to have seized the diplomatic initiative from Washington. To some it even appeared that the U.S. was on the defensive in its war of guns and acrimony with the Marxist-led regime in Managua. Catching Washington offbalance, the Sandinistas last week announced their willingness to accept, "in its totality and without modification," the draft of a regional nonaggression treaty sponsored by Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela. Collectively known as the Contadora group, those countries have been trying since July 1983 to bring peace and democracy to Central America...
Washington's unfavorable reaction to Managua's apparent peace offensive was prompted in large part by the Sandinistas' simultaneous announcement that presidential elections scheduled for Nov. 4 will not be postponed. The U.S. supports delaying the elections in order to give more preparation time to opposition candidates. The most prominent among them is Arturo Cruz, a disillusioned former member of the Sandinista junta. "They are very, very tricky," said Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Senior Associate Robert Leiken, who recently wrote a scathing indictment of the Sandinista regime for the New Republic. Scheduling the vote...
...eight-with Secretary of State George Shultz at the U.S. Mission to the U.N. The Americans wanted to raise a wide variety of regional and bilateral issues during this session, including such disagreeable matters as Soviet aid to antigovernment rebels in El Salvador, Moscow's ties to the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the continuing crackdown on freedoms in Poland. Shultz was prepared even to broach the subject of human rights in the Soviet Union, according to a senior White House official, primarily to satisfy various East European constituencies that take note of such frequently hopeless exchanges. Said...
...Nicaragua, Reagan has carefully muted his rhetorical support for the U.S.-backed contras in their effort to overthrow the Sandinista government, and in June he dispatched Shultz on a surprise trip to Managua in an effort to open negotiations with the Marxist-led regime. Even Mondale's advisers admit that the President has succeeded in lowering the profile of the Central American issue. "He's calmed it down," says Carter. "There are no Army maneuvers in Honduras...