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...troops. Their biggest coup was the destruction of a Soviet GCI radar unit that formed the heart of Sandinista air defenses for the region. Jubilant rebel leaders called the two- day assault the most successful offensive of the six-year civil war. "We hit them hard," claimed Enrique Bermudez, the contras' military commander. "We achieved all our objectives...
Meanwhile, the bureaucracy grows only more cumbersome. Nicaraguans complain about having to be screened by their local Sandinista defense committee before they can even apply for a driver's license or passport. "We need a visa to leave the country," says Maria Fernandez Bermudez, on the way to visit relatives in Costa Rica. "And then we need permission to return again. Imagine having to get a visa to return to your own country...
...civilian directors embraced the accord last week, saying they would return to Nicaragua if conditions for a cease-fire scheduled for Nov. 7 were met. "We are prepared to give the plan a fair try," said Alfonso Robelo. "We won't put up any hurdles." Contra Military Commander Enrique Bermudez, however, asserted that the rebels would not lay down their weapons on Nov. 7, nor would they accept an amnesty offered by Ortega. During their meeting with Reagan, the contra leaders proposed that the President secure renewed funding from Congress, then place the military portion of that...
...their notebooks with anything more than rumor or innuendo. They follow a well- trodden path to the contra offices in a sprawling bungalow on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa. The spokesperson is charming but uninformative. On a good day, a journalist might run into Contra Leaders Adolfo Calero or Enrique Bermudez, but they are not always forthcoming...
Many of the contras' field commanders, including Bermudez, are former members of deposed Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle's National Guard, the instrument of oppression in Nicaragua for more than four decades. For most Nicaraguans, this makes them something less than the "moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers," as Ronald Reagan has described them, and makes it harder for the FDN to inspire the populace...