The World - News from Nov. 6, 1988

The new Soviet ambassador to Nicaragua said in Managua that his country may increase aid to the Sandinista regime. “We support the Sandinista revolution with all our heart,” Ambassador Valery Nikolayenko said in his first news conference after presenting his credentials to President Daniel Ortega. He estimated Soviet aid to Nicaragua at $490 million a year in credits and donations and indicated that there could be an increase in the wake of the destruction caused last month by Hurricane Joan, which Managua blames for 103 deaths and leaving 186,950 homeless. Nikolayenko did not say whether the increased aid would include military supplies.