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...third guerrilla faction includes Edén Pastora Gómez, a Sandinista hero who became disillusioned with growing Soviet and Cuban influence over the revolution and defected from the Nicaraguan government in 1981. The group that includes Pastora has been biding its time in the democratic oasis of Costa Rica and has refused, in public at least, to deal with any of the other dissident groups that include former National Guard members, notably the F.D.N. Several weeks ago, Pastora slipped secretly into Nicaragua, and late last week he suddenly re-emerged in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa...
...overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza by Sandinista rebels in 1979, both sides fought with Israeli guns. In the 1976 border skirmish between Honduras and El Salvador, the two countries used Israeli infantry weapons. Since 1976, Israel has become a leading supplier to Guatemala, Honduras and to a lesser extent Costa Rica...
...National Association of Manufacturers in Washington, Reagan drew an ominous picture of worldwide consequences that would result from a Communist victory in El Salvador. "If guerrilla violence succeeds," he said, ". . .El Salvador will join Cuba and Nicaragua as a base for spreading fresh violence to Guatemala, Honduras, even Costa Rica. The killing will increase, and so will the threat to Panama, the Canal and ultimately Mexico." That, he added, would advance the aims of "Soviet military theorists [who] want to tie down our forces on our own southern border and so limit our capacity to act in more distant places...
...Pope John Paul II touched down in Costa Rica last week, attention in Rome was distracted by new developments related to one of the darkest hours of the Pontiffs reign. Ever since the 1981 assassination attempt in St. Peter's Square, suspicion has grown that the convicted Turkish gunman, Mehmet Ali Agca, took his orders from Bulgarian agents, who in turn might have been acting with the knowledge of the Soviet Union. To date, Italian investigators have arrested one Bulgarian official in Rome for alleged complicity in the plot, and accused two others. Now Italian officials have begun examining...
...believe that the government of El Salvador is on the front line in a battle that is really aimed at the very heart of the Western Hemisphere, and eventually at us," he told an audience at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club. "If El Salvador should fall, I think Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama - all of those would follow...