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...first stop, in El Salvador, Stone met with Provisional President Alvaro Alfredo Magaña, Defense Minister Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, and the country's archbishop, Arturo Rivera y Damas. Stone will also visit Nicaragua; it will be the first high-level U.S. visit to the revolutionary Sandinista government since Enders met with Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra there in 1981. Among other things, the Stone visit is intended to emphasize to the U.S. Congress that the Reagan Administration is still willing to pursue a reasonable and flexible course in its Central American policy. Nonetheless, said Stone, "the odds...
...Nicaragua, the Administration is concerned that the Sandinista regime is a Soviet lackey and has been supplying arms to the Salvadoran leftists. On both counts, the Administration is probably not far from the mark. Tragically, though, American policy may have been what pushed the Sandinistas into the Soviet camp. When he came to power, Reagan cut off all aid to Nicaragua, which was forced to turn elsewhere--i.e. to the Soviet Union--for economic assistance. Then word began to leak out that the Administration had okayed CIA plans to overthrow the fledgling regime. The Sandinistas initiated a significant military build...
...White Paper contained many charges that Washington has made in the past, including Sandinista aggression against Nicaragua's native Miskito Indian population. On the subject of exporting revolution, the White Paper charges that some 200 tons of weapons were shipped to Salvadoran guerrillas between late 1979 and early 1981. According to the White Paper, the flow continues, and the report specifically names the Nicaragua command center as the site from which Salvadoran guerrilla attacks and arms deliveries are coordinated. Sums up the report: "This level of outside support adds up to far more than merely marginal assistance for essentially...
That announcement may in the end mean a heightening of the undeclared war in Central America, exactly what Congress is worrying about. Last week a group of U.S. journalists received a personal glimpse of the clandestine conflict. At the invitation of Sandinista Leader Ortega, TIME Foreign Editor Henry Muller, Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan...
...revolutionary junta and a leading member of the ruling nine-man National Directorate, is perhaps his country's most outspoken opponent of U.S. policy in Central America. His two-hour interview with TIME last week was heavy with criticism of what he sees as U.S. attempts to undermine Sandinista rule. Excerpts...