Word: sandinistas
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Would tightly link aid to El Salvador to proven progress in land reform, a better judicial system and an end to death squads. Would stop U.S. support of rebels fighting the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, but favors the interdiction of weapons flowing from Nicaragua into El Salvador. Urges direct talks with the Sandinistas...
...were the results: election-year posturing and exploding tempers. Only this time the shouting on Capitol Hill was not merely for effect. The Administration's urgent requests for emergency military aid to the government of El Salvador and for the contra rebels fighting Nicaragua's Sandinista regime were clearly in peril...
Shultz was skeptical about elections in Nicaragua, which the Sandinista government last week announced would be held on Nov. 4. The balloting will not be fair, he said, unless the Sandinistas permit rival political groups to organize and to express their views publicly. Shultz implied that even an honest election would not lead the Administration to end support for the contra rebels. He said that the Sandinistas' "efforts to upset regimes in neighboring countries by force of arms are simply not compatible with the kind of world we would like...
...colorful celebration of national pride, the Sandinista government of Nicaragua last week commemorated the 50th anniversary of the assassination of its martyred hero, Augusto César Sandino. Brigades of young cotton and coffee pickers poured in from the countryside to the capital city of Managua, filling the main plaza with placards and rhythmic hand clapping. They were performing for themselves and for scores of foreign observers, invited by the Marxist-oriented leaders to witness the announcement that democratic elections would be held...
Firmenich escaped to Europe, where he issued defiant manifestoes and embraced luminaries like Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Firmenich also bragged from exile that his Montoneros played a small but vital part in the 1979 Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua...