The World - News from March 4, 1987
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The highest-level Soviet delegation ever to visit Nicaragua is in Managua, the government newspaper Barricada reported. Boris N. Yeltsin, Moscow city Communist Party chief, heads the group. He told Nicaraguan reporters that the United States should end its “criminal policy of state terrorism” and work for a peaceful solution to the conflict between the Sandinista government and the U.S.-backed contras. The United States says that one justification for supporting the rebels is the Sandinistas’ close ties to the Soviet Union.
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