Nicaraguan Envoy Speech

A high-ranking Nicaraguan diplomat last night charged the Reagan Administration with waging an uncartard war against Nicaragan in a speech last night at the Law School.

In the speech, sponsored by the Harvard Lawyers Guild, Francisco Campbell, first secretary for political affairs at the Nicaraguan Embassy in Washington, said that American support of the Somocist counter revolutionaries is "a concerted, systematic effort to undermine and eventually overthrow the Sandinista government."

Campbell told the sympathetic audience of 85 that American intervention in Nicaraguan, which he traced back to 1853, is not anti-communist but "based on identification with oligarchy groups."

Campbell said the Sandinistas have reduced illiteracy, passed agrarian reforms, and promised elections in 1985, just six years after the 1979 revolution. The United States, he added, took far longer to institute popular elections.

Lawyer Bill Schaap of the Center for International Rights, the second of two featured speakers, described his pending law suit on behalf of seven Nicaraguans injured in anti-Sandinista border raids.

He said Reagan Administration officials--whom he termed "bozos"--are responsible for hundreds of deaths in Nicaragua, adding. "They train the people, ship the people, wind them up, and send them in the right direction."