The World - News from July 21, 1985
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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega called on the United States to withdraw from the Organization of American States, saying the 38-year-old body is dominated by U.S. interests. If the United States refuses to withdraw, the Sandinista leader said, the other nations in the hemisphere should form an independent organization that would exclude the United States. The OAS, founded in 1947 with U.S. backing, includes the United States and every Latin American and Caribbean nation except Cuba, which was expelled in 1959.
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