Word: comayagua
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...tarmac of the 10,000-foot concrete airstrip. Painted dull gray, with small black letters identifying them as U.S. Army property, the aircraft bristled with electronic equipment. Despite the official wall of secrecy, off-duty members of the 224th, drinking beer in a bar at the nearby city of Comayagua, confirmed their surveillance role in El Salvador. They disclosed that before a flight, some reconnaissance crewmen gather golf ball-size rocks, which they occasionally drop on rebels when they spot them. Said an OV-1B crewman: "It's a way of sending them a message...
...been postponed, American strategists still see the country as a bastion for the U.S. in Central America. That prospect troubles some Hondurans. "In the event of a war, the U.S. will supply the money and the guns, but we will supply the dead and injured," says a businessman in Comayagua. Most Hondurans, however, welcome the U.S. influx. Says an influential banker in Tegucigalpa: "There is nothing temporary about the American presence in Honduras. We need the U.S. Army. If we need defending from any outside threat, the U.S. will defend us. We want the American troops here...
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