Thursday, March 20, 1986
Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
Managua Jews reject Reagan on persecution
United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaraguan Jewish sources yesterday rejected President Reagan's claim that the leftist Sandinista government had persecuted the country's tiny Jewish community and firebombed Managua's only synagogue.
In his nationally televised speech Sunday night, Reagan aimed at mustering Congressional support for $100 million of aid to rebels known as contras who are seeking the overthrow of the Nicaraguan government. The president charged that the Sandinistas have launched assaults against ethnic and religious groups.
"The capital's only synagogue was desecrated and firebombed," Reagan said. "The entire Jewish community forced to flee Nicaragua."
But Jewish sources and government officials said most of Nicaragua's Jewish community, which never totaled more than 300 people, left the country before the 1979 revolution that ousted dictator Anastasio Somoza and brought the Sandinistas to power.
Many of the Jews were wealthy businessmen with close ties to Somoza who, like many non-Jewish Somoza associates, feared reprisals after he was toppled. Much of their land and property was confiscated by the government after many Jews left the country, officials said.
Contras increase attacks
United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Rebel forces known as contras are attempting to step up operations inside Nicaragua to show Congress they still have a chance to overthrow Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government, Nicaraguan military analysts said yesterday.
On the eve of an expected House vote today on President Reagan's request for $100 million in aid to the contrains, the Nicaraguan military said its troops killed 115 rebels and wounded another 30 during last week's combat throughout the country.
The contrasts, in a broadcast over their clandestine radio, 15 de Septiembre, claimed that their fighters killed or wounded 160 Sandinista troops between March 10 and 17. The
Nicaraguan military analysts contend that the contras, who have failed to achieve any important military victory in five years of trying to overthrow the Nicaragua government, are trying to launch an offensive to show Congress they can be an effective fighting force.
The Defense Ministry confirmed a contra attack on an electrical substation in the city of Yalaguina, 96 miles north of Managua, killing one employee and a militiaman who was standing guard.
radio broadcast made no mention of rebel casualties.
The attack, which came Monday night, destroyed the substation and cut off electrical power to part of northern Madriz province. The ministry said the contras were driven off by government militias.
The Yalaguina incursion followed a
contra raid last week that heavily damaged a tobacco storage building. Sunday, six contras died during an attack on Totogalap, a town about 30 miles from Yalaguina. No militia or army casualties were reported.
Also yesterday, a former contra charged that U.S. military officials trained him and other contras in Honduran camps.
The advisers trained contras in combat and accompanied them on incursions across the border in nicaragua's northwestern Zelaya province, said Jimmy Wilson, a Miskito Indian who fought with contra forces for four years before turning himself in to Nicaraguan authorities this month.
Hisreb unit, made up mostly of Miskitos belonging to a group called Kisan, planted 30 anti-tank landmines.
Doctors blame ruin on contras
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A group of U.S. physicians is charging that the Nicaragua contras have deliberately attacked rural health centers and killed and kidnapped health workers in violation of international law.
The physicians, who belong to an organization of health workers opposed to U.S. aid to the contras, said contra forces had damaged or destroyed 61 health centers and forced the closing of 37 others since 1981.
About 38 health workers have been killed and 28 others have been kidnapped, the doctors said.
The House will decide today whether to approve Reagan's plan to give $100 million in military and economic aid to the contras.
The doctors' report, prepared after a visit to Nicaragua by 120 U.S. health workers in November, is being distributed to members of the House of Representatives this week, said David Siegel, a physician at the University of California in San Francisco and an author of the report.
military and other aid to the contras by four months. The delay would permit time for diplomatic negotiations.
A compromise appeared possible yesterday when White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the administration might agree to changes that could delay delivery of
The physicians' report, a follow-up to one released in March 1985, was prepared by Siegel and other members of the San Francisco Bay Area Committee for Health Rights in Central America, a local affiliate of the National Central American Health Rights Network.
Siegel said during a telephone interview that he and his associates generally supported the Sandinista government of Nicaragua and opposed the contras.
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