ACCRA Reuter: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said that his country was preparing for a possible war with the United States.
He told a news conference here that a U.S. decision to arm Contra Rebels fighting to overthrow his Socialist Government showed Washington was on an interventionist path in Nicaragua
The United States started off in Vietnam with a dozen military advisers but ended up mobilizing half a million troops there he told a news conference in Ghana’s capital Accra
Nicaraguans are forced to arm themselves and struggle in international forums until the United States respects the ruling of the international court of justice he added.
The court ruled last June that the US. broke international law through its support for the rebels and should pay Nicaragua reparations for damage caused.
Ortega who arrived in Accra from neighboring Burkina Faso is due in Zimbabwe next week to attend in the triennial summit meeting of the nonaligned movement. Nicaragua is among the countries seeking to host the next summit in 1989.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 5, 1986
