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With its $100 million aid package for Nicaraguan rebels all but in hand, the Administration had some cause to suppose it could get on with it and prepare the rebels to do serious battle with the Sandinista regime. Yet the Senate's debate on the aid measure had hardly subsided when Administration officials began wondering when, and just where, they could begin getting the contras into fighting trim...
Just how much difference the aid will make is unclear. The Administration has been funneling millions to the contras since 1982 to assist their insurrection against the Soviet-backed Sandinista government, although in 1984 Congress restricted the help to "humanitarian" supplies such as boots and bandages. But Administration officials said privately last week that Nicaragua's Pacific coast may be targeted for raids and that the contras may attempt to seize and hold a small piece of territory along the country's northern Atlantic coast. Moreover, the military aid to the contras would be parceled out in installments and would...
...Sandinista government's $40 million project has stirred critics at home and abroad. Scoffed a U.S. State Department official: "It's amazing that they propose to do something like this when they can't even keep food on the shelves." In Managua, pro-Sandinista Columnist Jose Lopez Callejas decried putting a "piece of Miami, Monaco or Switzerland" on land "consecrated by the blood of our heroes and martyrs." The Sandinistas responded to the criticism by imposing a blackout on all new information about the resort...
...take a stand on everything. In a speech last week he pledged to "study and master Soviet-American relations." His positions in many cases are the exact reverse of Robertson's. While Robertson advocates that the U.S. recognize the Nicaraguan contras as a government in exile, Jackson invited the Sandinista leader to dinner at his home in Chicago and some "backyard diplomacy" under a basketball hoop. Earlier, Jackson participated in drafting a statement that Ortega read to a PUSH meeting, pledging efforts to ease friction with both the Roman Catholic Church...
...Sandinista army, by contrast, is hell-bent on quashing the contras. Washington continues to warn that the Sandinistas may escalate the air war by introducing Soviet-built MiG jet fighters to the region, a circumstance that could provoke direct U.S. military action. U.S. intelligence reports show that about two dozen Nicaraguan pilots are currently receiving flight training in the Soviet Union and Bulgaria...