Word: depots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, the Administration could be heartened by the results of some investigative reporting in Nicaragua. Newsmen visiting an island near a small fishing village on the northwestern Zamora coast, just 40 miles from the Salvadoran border, uncovered the remains of what appears to have been a depot for smuggling arms to guerrillas in El Salvador, including a Sandinista army banner, rifle shell casings and a radio antenna. The discovery buttressed U.S. claims that Nicaragua routinely supplies the Salvadoran rebels by boat across the Gulf of Fonseca...
...front door was not threatening, nor was the visitor's message. "We are from the peace initiative," the voice said. "We want to talk to you about the missiles." But the U.S. soldier's young wife living in Mutlangen, West Germany, near a major U.S. Army depot, refused even to reply until her unexpected caller had departed. Moments later, when she hesitantly opened the door, she found an anti-Pershing-missile leaflet on her doorstep. "I didn't answer because I was scared," she said. "I don't know what they have against...
...major demonstrations against NATO's plan to begin deploying Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe by December, tensions are rising between peace activists and the 249,000 U.S. troops based in the country. Only last week West German police dismantled a "peace camp" outside the Mutlangen depot...
...troops as much as possible from West Germans to avoid direct confrontation has in part been counterproductive. "There is a strong feeling that Americans in general don't know much about Germany and don't care much about it," says Peter Bielke, who helped blockade the Mutlangen depot earlier this month. Asserts Reavis: "The Germans are now posing significant questions about their own country and the world around them, and many of the U.S. soldiers are not prepared to engage in that kind of discussion." In recognition of the problem, the U.S. command in West Germany reportedly...
...soldiers. Roofs had collapsed, window frames were stained black by fires, and smoke curled from several stone villas. Near by, in the Druze town of Sofar, militiamen carried rocket launchers and ammunition to a white Toyota pickup truck from a small stone church that was serving as a supply depot...