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...legislative obstacles were only the start of Reagan's Central American headaches last week. In Honduras, army efforts to move the contras out of camps near the Nicaraguan border threatened to impede the rebels' efforts to weaken Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government. In Nicaragua, Sandinista officials irritated Washington both by seeking to set up their own talks with Honduras and by announcing an oil deal with the Soviet Union. In Costa Rica, the Reagan Administration came under increasing criticism for sending Green Berets to a base...
...Nicaragua, Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra's renewed calls for bilateral talks with Honduras were ostensibly aimed at relieving border tensions. Washington believes such conversations would run counter to the Contadora process, the regional effort to bring peace to Central America. The minister's brother, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, concluded his 25-day, 14-country tour of Eastern and Western Europe with the announcement that Moscow had agreed to supply up to 90% of Nicaragua's oil needs. Since estimates are that the Soviet Union already provides some 75% to 90% of Nicaragua's consumption...
...were hungry, thirsty and penniless," John Cofie Godigah, 38, recalled last week from a hospital bed in Ghana. "I expected the Nigerians to show some feeling. I was mistaken." Godigah had driven his car from Lagos, Nigeria, to a border station on the Benin frontier, joining a caravan of an estimated 250 vehicles filled with foreigners who were being forced to leave the country. When the crowd tried to force its way across the choked border into Benin, Nigerian guards began firing warning shots and tear gas. Godigah was hit. He awoke in a hospital, was released after treatment...
There were similar instances of chaos and confusion at other border posts last week as tens of thousands of illegal immigrants, many of them Ghanaians, like the Godigahs, tried to make their way out of Nigeria. Their expulsion was decreed last month by the ruling military junta headed by Major General Mohammed Buhari. Under the order, an estimated 700,000 illegal immigrants living in Nigeria were given until May 10 to leave the country. When the deadline expired, the Nigerian authorities sealed the borders, making virtual prisoners of all those who had been unable to leave the country by land...
While they waited at the airport, with inadequate supplies of food and water, some of the illegal immigrants looted a warehouse. Others broke out of the terminal and raided nearby farms. Shooting was reported at some border posts as the increasingly frustrated refugees tried to drive their vehicles through closed crossings or escape by foot along bush paths. A few claimed that their vehicles were smashed or stolen and that they were robbed of their belongings...