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Ortega rejects idea of talks with rebels
By United Press International
University Daily Kansan, October 17, 1984
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega said yesterday Nicaragua would not follow El Salvador's lead and open peace talks with rebels supported by the United States.
Ortega, coordinator of the ruling Sandista junta, said the Salvadoran guerrillas were fighting against "social injustice" with popular support, while the anti-Sandistas were fighting with "artificial support" that would crumble without U.S. backing.
Ortega's statements, made at a Managua meeting of the Concorda group's special border commission, were broadcast over Twitter on Nicaragua's National Liberation Front's official radio, Voice of Nicaragua.
"The fight of the Salvadoran people corresponds to a real, concrete situation of social injustice, of exploitation," he said.
"THE STATIATION IS totally different and it is very clear," said Ortega, the Sagdinista president candidate for the Nov. 4 elections.
"In Nicaragua, the situation is one of permanent war and aggression against the people. If you get rid of the U.S. support, this
counter-revolutionary force would disappear because it is totally artificial."
Costa Rican and Nicaraguan representatives began meeting Monday under the auspices of the Contadora Group countries Mexico, Venezuela, Panama, and Honduras to establish border conflicts prompted by the U.S. backed rebels based in Costa Rica.
He said the transfer of arms and other aid sent to the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance was part of a plan to create tension between Nicaragua and Costa Rica that would portray Nicaragua as the aggressor and justify U.S. military defense of Costa Rica.
Ortega said at the meeting that the CIA was sending the Costa Rican-based rebels AK-47 Soviet rifles and other military supplies captured during the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada.
BUT ORTEGA MADE no mention of his charge before the United Nations last month that the United States, spearheaded by rebel forces, planned to invade Nicaragua beginning Oct. 15.
Although Costa Rica maintains a position of neutrality in the Central American conflict, the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance frequently launches attacks on Nicaragua.
Soviet troops increasing, official savs
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NEW DELHI, India — The Soviet Union has reportedly sent 35,000 additional troops into Afghanistan, raising its troop strength to 140,000 in an apparent bid to seal the border with a Western diplomat said yesterday.
"a considerable number of additional Soviet troops" arrived in Afghanistan in October.
The diplomat, citing reports from unidentified ditchers in Kabul, said
"Some of the sources now claim that Soviet troops in the country now number about 140,000," she said.
According to one version of the new Soviet troop deployment, the diplomat said, "part of the new addition was flown directly to Kandahar and another went to Pakistan," both
provinces of high rebel activity close to Pakistan.
She said the troop deployment was "apparently part of an effort to seal the border with Pakistan," where anti-government rebels obtain supplies and assemble for raids into Afghanistan.
There was no independent confirmation of the troop deployment reports.
But a week ago another Western diplomat said, "unconfirmed reports from many sources said to 70,000 Soviet troops may have entered Afghanistan recently to help seal the border with Pakistan."
Military experts and diplomatic sources generally estimate the Soviets have maintained about 105,000 troops in the country.
Officials doubt usefulness of Pershing-2s
In an interview on West German television, Warnke said that the real significance of the weapons was purely political.
By United Press International
maximum range across a land mass.
COGNEL, West Germany — U.S. Pershing 2 nuclear missiles based in Europe are of no military use, former U.S. strategic arms reduction negotiator Paul Warnke said yesterday.
"It would have been taken as a political defeat if the missiles had not been deployed at the appointed time at any cost," said the former negotiator at the Strategic Arms
In another interview on the same program, retired U.S. Adm. Eugene Carroll said the Pershing 2 had never been successfully "tested under the conditions for which it was developed" — namely over its
"As a military commander, I could not depend on this weapon should I ever have to use it," Carroll said, who was a member of the U.S. Pershing 2 stationing committee. "I don't even know whether I can get it off the ground or just where it may come down."
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