Nicaragua: OPENING THE WAY FOR INTERVENTION

"OPENING THE WAY FOR INTERVENTION" As part of a campaign to sway the U.S. debate on Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, 40, met last week with TIME editors in New York City. In a wide-ranging discussion, he assessed his country's relations with other Central American countries, the Soviet Union and the U.S. Excerpts:

On relations with the Soviet Union. Politically, we have relations of mutual $ respect and independence. The Soviet Union knows we have a government of political pluralism, a mixed economy and a stand of nonalignment. There has never been any insinuation that we should change our policies or...

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