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...neighborhood Sandinista defense committees are becoming a problem. In the southern town of San Juan del Sur, "Rodrigo," 27, told TIME that his neighbors have been warned to vote for the Sandinistas or risk losing their food ration cards. "It's not a fear of repression, as in Somoza's times," says Domingo Sanchez Salgado, presidential candidate of the small Socialist party. "It is a fear of repercussions...
...many American liberals has been to negotiate with the Sandinista regime at all costs; without a matching concern for the outcome of any such talks or the welfare of the Central American people. It seems that Americans have forgotten that the original 1979 Nicaraguan revolution against the rightly-hated Somoza regime was broadly-based. Its leadership reflected this pluralism. The Carter Administration aided the ruling junta because it wanted to help such a multifaceted uprising...
...Harvard appearance last week--that Washington horrible planning a November military invasion of his country. It is clear that Ortega and his cronics are searching for scapegoats to explain away their inability to lift the Nicaraguan peasantry above the squalor in which they were left by the Somoza regime...
...than Ferraro as a possible President. Yet despite his Government service, Bush has not often come across as a savant during the campaign. Last month in remarks at a Vermont college, he committed an elaborate fumble concerning the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution. "The Sandinistas came in," he said. "They overthrew Somoza, killed him and overthrew him. Killed him, threw him out." In fact, ex-Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle was assassinated in Paraguay after a year in exile. When reporters challenged Bush, the Vice President said he had meant Sandinistas in a "generic" sense...
What he found was a country much changed from the Somoza days. This time, McGinn says, he witnessed wide-spread enthusiasm on the part of the people. "It was clear that the people in the street were supportive," he says. "Now they could get health and educational services. The government was offering political participation and it appeared very democratic...