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Thursday, November 2D, 134 Daily Ucbrzzkzn i v. Fidel Ccafoo 1 meric&n CIA r-mts crcn't : i tue uiiiy cuuiaera wiio nave have bien sursertir.'! th anti-Sandinista "contras" in Nicaragua. Anti-Castro Cuban exiles in lli&mi have been supply ing cash and weapons even a few of their own people to the guerrilla groups seeking the Managua regime's overthrow. But there's a problem. The fan atically anti-communist Cuban emigres are embarrassing the Nicarcguan contras by their wil lingness to use questionable tac tics in the fight against the leftist Sandinista regime. Part of the trouble concerns image. The contra leaders, while staunchly anti-communist, con eider themselves Nicaraguan pat riots trying to rescue their home land from tyranny. Indeed, some of them, like Eden Pastora ("Com mander Zero"), are themselves revolutionaries, and are battling the Sandinistas for the betrayal of the revolution that overthrew a hated dictator, Anastasio Somoza. In varying degrees, some of the contra leaders are probably wil ling to work out a compromise solution with the Sandinistas. Ob viousty, any negotiated settlement would entail a process of reconci liation, and there is evidence sug gesting that both sides have tried to prevent the kind of all-out con flict that would prevent an even tual negotiated settlement. But the Cubans operate under no such restraints. The are only fighting the San dinistas because their real target, Fidel Castro, is beyond reach-But Castro supports the Managua regime; and in the Cubans' view, this makes the Sandinistas fair game. Once this rationale of guilt by association is accepted, the num ber of potential targets takes a quantum jump. Thus last month Cuban-directed thugs gunned down a Costa Hican businessman apparently because he was thought to be a Sandinista sup porter. Incidents like that are more than a moral embarrassment to the contra forces who have been using Costa Rica as a base for guerrilla raids into Nicaragua. Abuses of Costa Rica's unofficial hospitality could lead the govern ment to crack down on the con tras as well as the Cuban perpe trators, Costa Rica, which no army, is already risking military retaliation from the Sandinistas for winking at the contras' pres ence in the border area. So the contra leadership has put some distance literally between its forces and the Cubans, by moving its camps into precari ous locations practically on the Nicaraguan border. At one such forward camp, within sight of Lake Nicaragua across the border our associate Jon Lee Andersen asked contra leader Fernado "El Negro" Chamorro about the Cuban connection. We can't permit them to get involved as free-lancers," Ch&morro said. "They have to incorporate with us. He i have began, on a merger that' would put the-Cuban-led troops under his comir,ir.d. But there's some doubt .that such a merger can take place. Some of the Cubans' recruits at their jungle camp in northwest ern Costa Rica are contra deser ters. "They recruited the worst elements" s aid one source, "the cattle thieves and the killers. - Fuddle factors'. If you cant make much sense out of the eso teric pronouncements of the economists who profess to know where the country is headed, take heart: Seme of our top officials ' share your bewilderment t JL fc- I 'J, WW i . ra t j,f.JS0 . v I ' J,. 1 - "Vfjrj Now is the time to select your Christmas gifts. Come in and browse around and see our beautiful selection of liquor, wine, and liqueur gift sets and ceramic bottles. Free gift wrap available for items purchased for $8 and above. 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