only four days, been backed an attack clash with a Hundreds of meetings have been held at Managua March, networks of defence, produchealth and sanitation, and construction support for this the decree On the legal front, the government decreed suspended Also suspended These measures are to remain in force for 15 April 1982 page 6 Response to appeals for militia volunteers has been massive. Eighteen thousand members of the Sandinista Youth alone have enrolled.
Here in Managua, out three nights a week for training in each of ine severa centres In Matagalpa, a city of 40,000 to the north.
March. hours of evening training, the new recruits held a march through the main street or tne city ir answer to Reagan. In Juigalpa, a city to the east a similar demonstration was held from Honduradiers display explosives captured from counter revolutionaries operating thousands have turned all ne volatees.
ple ot After several conditions of war. the same night after the evening's training militia training were required to accommodate In addition to joining the militias, the peo are contributing skills they have to the defence of the revolution.
Doctors and nurses are being organised into medical brigades to assure battlefield care and general medical care for the population under A brigade of engineers and geologists is beting bomb shelters.
And in priorities, special counts, and mobile cultural events.
Special attention has been and distribution of food.
tees, against military attack.
Trenches nave mittees (CDS).
heightened tension to artificially pose. large market workers task.
highiv organised way Sergio Ramirez, speech 17 March:
'Defence is not solely a military order and discipline. needs at this time.
And that is what it is getting.