Nicaragua's concessions fail to halt U.S. war drive
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Nicaraguan victims of contra war protest against any further U.S. funding. In 1987 alone, 7,304 people died in the fighting. The Sandinista government estimates losses of over $377 million due to contra destruction.
Events in Nicaragua and the rest of Central America are moving at an increasingly rapid pace.
On Jan. 15, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced a series of concessions to the U.S. government and its mercenary army-the contras—in the hope of staving off a vote by the U.S. Congress for continued aid to the contras.
Ortega, in a sharp reversal of previous policies, agreed to lift the state of emergency, hold direct talks with the contras, and release thousands of contras and exSomoza National Guardsmen.
The state of emergency had been decreed in 1982 to prevent the internal front of the contras-the Nicaraguan capitalists--from destabilizing the revolution from within.
But the U.S. government and its contra puppets are still not satisfied with the latest Sandinista concessions. The more Ortega gives in to U.S. pressures, the more the imperialist warlords in Washington demand.
This was made clear in the first round of (continued on page 12)
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A demonstration in Nazareth on the same day drew 40,000 around the theme, "Freedom for All the Palestinian People.' The struggle of the Palestinians to regain their homeland is not confined to the West Bank and Gaza. Forty years ago, the Israeli settler state itself was set up on land brutally seized from the Palestinian people.
The Israeli government can only continue its apartheid-like policies because of the support of the U.S. government. This year alone, U.S. economic and military aid will exceed $3 billion. People in this country who support human rights and self-determination must demand, "End All U.S. Aid to Israel!"-The editors
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April 30 protests See page 3.