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Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott made an inspection tour of the embattled Nicaraguan town of Jalapa (pop. 10,000) on the Honduran border. Suddenly their convoy was ambushed by a force of U.S.-backed contras. Two Sandinistas were killed and six wounded in the attack. The 18 journalists on the trip, including the three from TIME, escaped unharmed. The TIME team's eyewitness report...
...single-engine biplane was to fly us back to Managua. We were warned of trouble ahead as we passed a roadblock, but our hosts decided to proceed. It was a mistake. Barely four miles out of town, the air was suddenly filled with the sound of machine gunfire. The convoy had come under ambush from a force of 80 to 100 contras hidden between trees on one side of the road and in back of barns on the other. Our driver skidded to a halt and dived out the door, pistol in hand. The three of us and Karen...
...from the heaviest fighting. We scrambled out into a shallow roadside ditch filled with weeds and dried cow manure and spent the next hour in intimate contact with the ground. The fighting finally died down and the contras retreated, leaving eleven dead. Four of the seven Jeeps in the convoy had suffered casualties, the three in front of us and the one immediately behind...
...contra plan had apparently been to catch our caravan in an ambush and drive us down the road, where another group was lying in wait to finish us off. Fortunately, the trap was sprung before the convoy was completely inside. As the blood-and dust-covered bodies were carried into the hospital for last rites, administered by the town priest, a Nicaraguan television crew trained its camera on the four Americans watching the scene. Our interpreter, a young woman, broke down in tears and said, "I hate what your Government is doing...
...Israelis did not press the argument, but on the day after the Lebanese army deployment, an Israeli tank patrol drove straight through a Lebanese army barricade in East Beirut, despite protests from the Lebanese soldiers on duty. Two days later, Israeli troops tried to disarm a French military convoy serving with the United Nations peace-keeping force in Lebanon...