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Correspondents in southern Nicaragua reported occasional firing near the outpost of Penas Blancas on the Costa Rican border. Guerrillas fought a nine-hour battle with the national guard garrison there Sunday before withdrawing into Costa Rica...
...completely changed. The whites will be back by August or September." Perhaps so. But those who have remained are demanding a special payment of $1,000 a month in "danger money," the right to bear private arms, guarantees of evacuation "on demand" and, more significantly, a foreign military garrison. The expatriates have no confidence in the ability of the Zaïrian army to ward off another rebel attack and no faith in the proposed pan-African force to ward off the marauding Zaïrian army...
...Garrison, one of the organizers of the Harvard group, described the purpose of the occupation yesterday, saying, "We hope to hold the site, and to educate the public on a mass scale, on the hazards of nuclear power...
...hoping the state will find it impractical to arrest and cart off all those bodies, since it practically bankrupted the state to hold the protesters last year," Garrison said, adding that this year's demonstration is expected to be several times larger than last year's 2000 protesters...
...media coverage will be extensive. We will have to show the world how strongly Americans object to nuclear power," Garrison said...