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...another murky incident unfolded when the Sandinistas revealed the mysterious suicide in Nicaragua of one of El Salvador's most important guerrilla leaders, Salvador Cayetano Carpio, 63. Cayetano Carpio was the head of the rebel faction known as the Popular Forces of Liberation, the most determinedly Marxist-Leninist of the country's guerrilla organizations. According to the Sandinistas, he took his own life on April 12, after the equally mysterious assassination in Nicaragua a week earlier of his No. 2 guerrilla commander, Melida Anaya Montes, better known as Ana Maria. The Nicaraguans announced the arrest of five other...
...Chairman Yasir Arafat, living in the dream world that Sartawi disdained, deserves much blame for this latest outbreak of hit-and-run political murder. True, it was a splinter faction led by one of Arafat's worm enemies that ordered the slaying and took credit for it soon after. But it was Arafat himself who had effectively undermined Sartawi's already slim chances of survival last February when he abruptly removed the doctor from the speaker's list at the Palestine National Council meeting in Algiers and then ejected him from the session entirely. Arafat made it clear to every...
...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...
More than a year ago the F.D.N. guerrilla faction began to take an active military posture. Its well-armed forces moved directly into the provinces of Jinotega and Nueva Segovia. According to the Sandinistas, those forces represent ten groups of 250 men each. But anti-Sandinistas who have close ties to the F.D.N. claim to have 16 battalions of 750 men each within Nicaragua. U.S. intelligence sources, while not disputing the fact that the rebels are active, consider their numbers to be grossly inflated. In the U.S. view, F.D.N. strength is probably closer...
During the eight-day journey that began last Wednesday in Costa Rica and that was to take him to Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and Haiti, John Paul was visiting nations torn by insurrection and political change. Each faction on the ideological spectrum would examine his every utterance, hoping to find an endorsement of its political views. But first and foremost John Paul had come as a pastor, offering instruction, strength and solace to his Central American flock of 25 million Roman Catholics...