Word: sandinistas
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...recent buzzword favored by the Reagan Administration in explaining its strategy toward Central America is "symmetry." The term ties together the problems of the region's two most serious trouble spots, El Salvador and Nicaragua. By symmetry, the Administration means that it intends to do unto the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua precisely what it believes the Sandinistas are doing to the U.S.-supported government of El Salvador: aid the guerrillas who seek its overthrow. The strategy is to reach the point at which governments and insurgents in both El Salvador and Nicaragua will join in a ceasefire, followed...
...further sign of the contras' troubles came last week when Edén Pastora, a former Sandinista who has been leading a separate group of guerrillas operating from the south, announced that he was ceasing his activities. Pastora, who refused to join forces with the U.S.-supported contras in the north, said he had run out of arms and money. The real reason may be that his campaign had not sparked the army desertions or the popular support that he had expected...
Reagan Administration officials maintained last week that the state of the contra offensive had not significantly changed. Impressions drawn by reporters on the scene represented, according to a U.S. intelligence expert, a "worm's-eye view." He added, "Some contra units may be coming under pressure from Sandinista troops, but the contras are not being pushed out of Nicaragua." Maybe not, but they are certainly having their difficulties, as TIME Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter discovered last week when he crossed the Honduran border to visit contra positions.* His report...
...promised an extended ten-day trip through the territory they hold inside Nicaragua. But when we arrived at "Base Nicarao," one of the contras' two main northern bases, we were greeted only by a chorus of F.D.N. recruits, ranging from boys of 14 to weathered campesinos singing anti-Sandinista war hymns, including one to the tune of When Johnny Comes Marching Home...
...harass contra insurgents. Just after the two men's rented car, a white Toyota, passed Honduran Truckdriver Jose Cruz Espinal, he saw a grenade split the car almost in half; then machine-gun fire spattered the road. The shots came from terrain held by Nicaragua's Sandinista government. The killings could hardly have been an accident: the men were almost certainly identifiable as civilians; the attackers probably shot from no more than 150 to 300 yards away. An American journalist who had been in Sandinista encampments in recent weeks had witnessed a soldier firing a cannon...