European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Contras in a stamp continued from Page 13 and sandinista military the contras now rely on several Small who As commander of tactical operations is one of the top fun officers inside says the fun has practically entered 100 percent in a guerrilla the wild haired former National guard lieutenant said the move to guerrilla tactics abandoning pitched Bat Les for ambushes and sabotage is part of new Battle orders he issued last August after Aid dried the drawn in consultation with Cia advisers in called for operations by units As Small As 1 to 15 men in new fronts throughout a strategy designed to spread out sandinista military he conserving ammunition and avoiding we strike the enemy when and at the time we Tono Al a potbellied guard Veteran who leads fun troops in Eastern Zelaya says he believes popular support for Contra forces has grown Little by Little As they extended their operations into new other Field commanders echoed his even if its with our were still going to be Gato the fun has begun a civil defense project to provide supporters in pinot Cha and Zalaya provinces with according to a Field commander who gave his name As the strongest indication of support for the contras has been a sandinista begun this to relocate peasants from Northern Nicaragua into resettlement Camps farther nicaraguan officials put the Cost of the program at the government denies the resettlement is but residents charge the army Burns their Homes after they arc Twenty thousand nicaraguan peasants also have been relocated from areas along the Costa rican Border in the last two sandinista officials dismiss the contras military saying that almost All major sabotage opera such As Harbor were either directed or conducted by the Cia and latin american commandos hired by the Borge conceded that Large numbers of peasants have joined the but he said most of them were rela Tives of fun fighters and former guard he said peasants were routinely forcibly recruited and made to fight in after the first its very hard to escape that hellish he they feel unlike Al Salvador who Are thought to number or the contras have never captured and held a town or other important senior fun officers say the Force has Only been Able to establish Supply bases inside Nicaragua for limited periods of and Only in the isolated mountainous provinces of Jino Tega and in 1983 and Large rebel columns battled Sandi nista troops for control of a Triangle of territory around the Northern Border town of the which Calero said had the propaganda aim of establishing a provisional government inside failed and were at this Point its not feasible for us to be fighting to defend says a Young former National guard charting operations on a Large map at the Border Camp marked with triangles for fun and sandinista fun troops in the newest Contra which reaches through Esteli province into Northern Leon receive their supplies from a base in the honduran province of Contra officers the argentin trained Leader of some 300 fun troops of the Jose Dolores Estrada command around the town of san Juan de Lima in says his fighters can count on very Little civilian Dimas said the guerrillas generally move through the areas arid Pacific coast Plains at night in groups of about avoiding massing for air Supply drops because of the terrains sparse he said the Lack of Strong civilian support meant they had to leave Nicaragua for the refusal of Congress to approve More Aid is not Only important to the contras for supplies it could be crucial to their remaining in Honduras and Costa in general they obviously have our but they create a lot of problems for a honduran official honduran government officials fear thou Sands of armed whom honduran military offi cers have accused of death squad killings of civilians in would roam the Border area terrorizing the Costa Rica appears to have similar worries but has expressed them less the strongly anti Sandinia to government in san Jose recently denied fun presi Dent Calero permission to enter the country for political activities and threatened More than a year ago to kick out the the honduran which formally asked the United states for a plan to resettle the also thinks the Border conflict scares off needed foreign in since Misura Leader Steadman Aagoth was expelled from Honduras this year after he held a press Confer ence within earshot of officials uneasy about the Contra Musuras phones have also been mysteriously out of we Are As undercover As Misura spokes Man Herman the according to Miriam an official of the nicaraguan governments Institute of social Security and has Cost More than billion in direct and indirect damages and nearly but it is difficult to gauge the Success of the contras Campaign to wreck the nicaraguan Bermudez said fun attacks prevented 75 percent of Nicaragua Coffee crop from being and Sev eral Large Farmers in the Coffee province of a Tagaloa said Contra assaults and government draft recruiters had scared pickers out of the but Enrique president of the higher Council of private which generally opposes the said the rebels had very Little Success in disrupting the Coffee he said almost the entire Cotton crop was including Paul the com Mander of troops in latin America from the Southern command in have conceded the contras stand no Chance of defeating the sandinista militarily in the near Bermudez said the fans strategy is simply to pro Voke a crisis that leads to their its not necessary to annihilate the last of the Sandi nista he a resumption of even in the form of humanitarian assistance food and medicines would enable the contras to accept new recruits and escalate their there is no Clear sign that a cutoff would Stop the contras from with their new guerrilla causing severe damage to the our greatest Victory Bermudez that the Sandinia tas have never Defeated with or without the War also May become even More destructive and More costly for civil new York times photos nicaraguan democratic Force recruits train at Camp on Honduras Nicaragua pack animal is loaded with fun special operations and demolitions officers say they plan to make transportation a sabotage target after the end of the the strategy will include mining blowing up Bridges and attacking government they the sandinista for its appears to be gearing up for a major military offensive against the army spokeswoman Rosa Pasos said a group of sandinista pilots had returned from special training in Bulgaria and would soon be flying four to six soviet built mi24 Hind attack helicopters against the re soviet pilots have used the choppers with devastating Success against rebels in Calero said the fun had been Given surface air missiles by a very private source to use against the he would not specify what Type of the sandinista army is adding a number of new special counterinsurgency units to an estimated nine irregular warfare Bata Lions already Pasos the military also has plans to expand permanent territorial a Sel defense program of Short term training for local Bermudez says Aid to his forces would be the cheap est solution to ending the contras sandinista Call Lor removal of press and political restrict charging they Are part of a cubans Tyte totalitarian Here they Stan justly heavy press a response to rebel government critics say political freedoms Cut since november Echo us charges that sandinista arms build up is to intimidate Domestic threaten neighbors and equip regional guerrilla and others demand a National political changes and new elec Ardes Pastora opposes talks with Misur Satas Rivera May soon resume talks with is strongest now funded by private anticommunist reportedly aided by Al possibly Guatemala and operate from Honduras and Costa allocate 40 percent of National budget to de sense and expanding blaming u s invasion threat and declared moratorium on new weapons reportedly got million in soviet bloc Aid since refuse to negotiate with rebels Call on u s to resume bilateral endorse Contador peace plan but oppose changes urged by profess no alignment but vote with soviet bloc in International Cuba is closest seeking better relations with latin America and up graphic Toro demands for a National dialogue by Tim Golden United press International five months after the sandinista front sealed its hold on Power with victories in presidential and legislative opposition politicians Are sharply divided Over their future in some dissident parties Are bucking slim Odds to Chal Lenge the marxist led sandinista overwhelming control in the National their leaders say they will continue to rally and to but a key opposition testing the fuzzy line Between the ties that the government will and will not permit Between internal critics and the Contra is demanding the sandinista include the guerrillas in a National since the umbrella democratic coordinating councils 22 sandinista officials have turned up the heat under their we could All be thrown in jail pretty said a prominent politician who asked not to be its just a question of How quickly they the sandinista no anti sandinista inside Nicaragua have openly linked their political efforts to the the Spanish Slang for the counter revolutionaries fighting to oust the nicaraguan but a week after the opposition Council called for the contras to be included in exiled rebel and Politi Cal leaders issued a parallel ultimatum calling for a dialogue and new on March a group of exiled labor and business figures further blurred the line Between inter Nal and external opposition when they formed the nicaraguan opposition coordination in Costa its leaders describe the an Alliance of political parties and private sector groups in As a civic Arm of anti sandinista efforts inside were said the groups Faud a conservative we cant be spokesmen for the internal but we have common two key opposition leaders claimed in recent interviews the internal political situation has become increasingly polarized because the government has reduced political freedoms granted during the fall Cam we thought there could have been a real said Independent Liberal party chief Virgilio who finished third in the presidential and now five members of the sandinista National liberation front before a a photo there is a sort of freeze on opposition political Active a former sandinista labor claimed that in the last few months his party announcements have been censored routinely and its efforts to organize Public meetings blocked by the social democratic party president Luis Rivas a Leader of the coordinating said he backs the Reagan administrations Campaign for Aid to the con tras As the Only Way to alter the balance of said Cia Aid to the rebels has been justifying the sandinista crack Down on indirect support for the rebels has brought Rivas and other leaders Sharp warnings from the in Early the Council publicly distanced itself from its onetime presidential former Sandi nista ambassador to the United states Arturo Cruz was barred from entering Nicaragua to formally deliver the exiles ultimatum to the three Days Rivas and nine others who had demanded talks with the contras were called before state Security chief Lenin Cerna to answer charges they were hatching a plot to oust the in the 96seat National opposition politicians Are frequently heard in Sharp debates but say they have Given up trying to overcome the sandinista 61seat the government bloc voted itself the Power to approve a new Constitution with Only 60 and gave Ortega Power to make policy without consulting the the bloc has won every vote since the As Sembly opened leading opponents to dub it the Page 14 the stars and stripes May the stars and stripes Page 15