World Notes Nicaragua

Until November, Edgar Chamorro was principal spokesman for the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the largest of the contra groups fighting to overthrow the Sandinista government. Chamorro, who carried out his mission from exile in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Key Biscayne, Fla., revealed that he had been picked for his job by the CIA. The agency, he disclosed, had printed training manuals instructing the guerrillas in such activities as assassination, kidnaping and blackmail. For that revelation he was ejected from the contras. Now the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service wants to expel Chamorro from the country. Two weeks ago, the New York Times printed an op-ed article by Chamorro in which he criticized the Reagan Administration's policies toward Nicaragua and congressional approval of humanitarian aid for the contras. The INS subsequently began deportation proceedings against Chamorro, who has lived with his family in the U.S. since 1979.

The timing of the deportation hearing was "just a twist of fate," insisted Perry Rivkind, the INS district director in Miami. He rejected any suggestion that politics influenced his decision to review the case. Chamorro, who has been denied political asylum by the U.S., claims that he has a U.S. entry visa valid through 1987. He vowed to fight any attempt to deport him.