Word: azcona
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras--President Jose Azcona said yesterday the 3200 U.S. soldiers on an emergency mission in Honduras probably will not be needed much longer because Nicaraguan troops are retreating from Honduran territory...
...Things are getting back to normal," Azcona said in an interview yesterday, a day after two Honduran warplanes fired rockets at Sandinista positions in a section of the disputed Bocay region that Honduras considers its territory...
...there are no more incidents, the Americans will leave," Azcona said...
...Honduran warplanes bombed Nicaraguan positions Saturday afternoon in a rugged border area where President Jose Azcona was reinforcing troops to oust the Sandinista solidiers...
...Nicaraguan Defense Ministry said the raid was on Nicaraguan territory and caused no damage. Azcona, in a telephone interview, would neither confirm nor deny the attack, but the Honduran military said it occurred on the Honduran side of the ill-defined border...