Word: sandinistas
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...speech, sponsored by the Harvard Lawyers Guild, Francisco Campbell, first secretary for political affairs at the Nicaraguan Embassy in Washington, said that American support of the Somocist counter revolutionaries is "a concerted, systematic effort to undermine and eventually overthrow the Sandinista government...
Lawyer Bill Schaap of the Center for International Rights, the second of two featured speakers, described his pending law suit on behalf of seven Nicaraguans injured in anti-Sandinista border raids...
Vargas was referring to some 150 anti-Sandinista invaders who had swept down on the hamlet garrison five days earlier to launch a twelve-hour firefight. Before the attack was repelled, the Sandinistas claimed, the counterrevolutionaries killed five Nicaraguan defenders and wounded five others, at a cost of 58 of their own dead. According to the Nicaraguans, the incident was the latest in a series of 500 such attacks in the past year; as many as 440 civilians and military men have been killed. The Bismuna battle, they protested, was part of a continuing effort by the Reagan Administration...
That state reached a new height last week as the Nicaraguans watched Operation Big Pine taking place across the border. Claiming that Big Pine was the prelude to a major U.S.-backed invasion of Nicaragua, the Sandinista government called a full-scale alert in five frontier provinces. Green-uniformed guardsmen scanned border outposts for signs of more incursions of the kind that occurred at Bismuna...
Nicaraguan officials candidly admitted that they were embarked on a form of propaganda campaign against the Big Pine maneuvers. Said a Sandinista diplomat in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua: "When there's a well-known rapist in the neighborhood, you scream in order not to suffer...