NICARAGUA REBEL, IN U.S., WARNS AGAINST INVASION

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• Publication Date: November 10, 1983
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Nicaragua Rebel, in U.S., Warns Against In vasion
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rena you got in
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and out quickly. In Nicaragua you
could get in, but getting out would be
another matter."
" We don't need U.S. intervention in
Nicaragua," Mr. Pastors added,
"There are enough Nicaraguans will.
ing to fight already."
He said his forces needed only two
things, "guns and boots."
Rebels Confer With Cubans
By JAMES LeMOYNE
A top Nicaraguan rebel leader ap. ; tarts despite what they said was dis-
pealed to Americans yesterday to aid 11 mist on both sides and protests to Cuba
his forces while warning - the Reagan by Nicaraguan leaden. "Our project is ..
Administration against direct military a'historic compromise," one said. "We;
intervention in Nicaragua. believe the Cubans recognize the need'
In an interview in Manhattan at the hr reconciliation in Nicaragua."
start of a two-week fund-raising tour of j .nder the nom de guerre Com.
the United States, Eden Pastors ouunder Zero, Mr. Pastors was a hero
G6mez, head of the Nicaraguan Demo- cratic Revolutionary Alliance, said: Nimraguan d dic oi'the Sandinista etacampator Anaign against the ? .
"Military intervention in stasio Somoza
Nicaragua Debayle, who was overthrown in 1978.
would be the biggest mistake that Rea- But angered by the Sandinistas' in-
gan could male I
G d
Nicaragua. [Page A7.]
Mr. Pastors, who said he had left his
troops in the jungles of Nicaragua only
In Managua, a Nicaraguan official
said foreign troops might be not to aid
anti-Government rebels, who he said
were failing in their campaign to seize
a part of Nicaraguan territory. The of.
ficial,-Victor Tirado Lopez, a member
of the nine?man Sandinista National Di
rectorate, said the Reagan Administra.
' tion was trying to reactivate the Cen-
tral American Defense Council in order
to use the organization's forces against
e
recently held talks with Cuban officials Partnership remained spend onl $100 equipping each of his
on the political situation in Nicaragua. The Democratic Revolutionary Al. guerrilla fighters. -
But he said the talks had ended because liance is a union of Mr. Pastora's "It would be easy to get money If I
became or .
the Cubans 'only wanted to use them to ' Sandino Revolutionary Front and Mr. winger," a Mr. a if I was a left
t
sow distrust among democratic sec- i Robelo's Nicaraguan Democratic harder when . Pastore said. "it's
tors" supporting his forces. Movement. Mr. Pastore said the al. u you are in the center with-
out apreconceived ideology."
Other senior officials of the Demo. At a news conference held to publi.:
cratic Revolutionary Alliance offered size his cause,*Mr. Pastors said he did
another version of the Cuban contacts. not know whether the C.I.A. supplied
?hey said the talks were difficult and the plane that his forces used in an at.
exploratory. but were an important tack on the airport in the Nicaraguan
-and continuing element in the al. capital of Managua on Sept. 8. He said
liance's efforts to affect the course of his organization had bought two planes,
a
the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. the one from other a "at surplus t a a very dry goo d dealer Miami and
price from a
F urtber Contacts Predkbd company in Panama."
The officials said Cuba initiated the Previous reports had said that the
talks in June because it was worried (plane used in the attack had been
that Nicaragua was becoming danger. traced to .a C.I.A.-affiliated company.
ously?polarized and believed the risk of
a United States invasion was growing.
The officials predicted further con-
fiance has 4,000 armed -guerrillas and
2,000 other men waiting for weapons.
But Western diplomatic . sources in
Costa Rica estimate that the group has'
3,000 guerrillas, not all of whom are
combat-ready.
The guerrilla leader said be was on
his first "legal" visit to the United
.States. He noted that4uring the cam.
bad against the' -Somosa regime be
bad made ? two clandestine, trips to
smuggle arms for the Sandinistas.
He said that on his two-week tour he
creasingly Marxist course, he went intends to meet with journalists, politi.
into exile 16 1881, accusing his former. ci and Nicaraguan exiles in New
comrades in arms of betraying the-
he Ylt~lfarkmiWashingtoai. San Francisco and
revolution. For the last six months his . Expressing concern with American
Costa Rica-based alliance has waged a policy, Mr. Pastors. said the Reagan
sporadic guerrilla campaign against Administration was "Salvadorizing"
Sandinista units in the isolated south. Nicaragua by encouraging random vio.
eastern jungles of Nicaragua. Ience and by backing the Nicaraguan
D
emocratic Force, which he said has
The Reagan Administration supports
a second guerrilla group, the Hon. military successes but no political
duras-based Nicaraguan Democratic backing."
Force, which is fighting in the north of Mr. Pastors said he had no plans to
the country. Mr. Pastore has refused to meet with United States officials, but
ally his forces with this group, which he was willing to do so. As evidence of in.
says has ties to former officials of the creased United States interest in his
Somoza regime and its national guard. movement, be cited his visa to enter
Accompanying Mr. Pastore were Al. the co in
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fonso Robelo Calla as, co-leader of the Altho gh Western diplomatic offs.
Democratic Revolutionary ' Alliance, dale in Costa Rica have said that the
and several other rebel officials. Mr. Democratic Revolutionary Alliance
Robelo said he had come al has received some money and arms
ong on the from the Central Intelligence Agency,
trip to dismiss rumors that the two had Mr, Pastore would sa
serious disagreements. Mr. Pastore re- y only that he
portedly quit the alliance two weeks ' may have received C.I.A. support indi.
ago because of policy disagreements "take. But be added that he would'
with Mr. Robelo, but both men insisted take money from anyone, so long as
there
are no conditions attached
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two days ago, confirmed that aides had Iand that th
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