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These were the conflicting and irreconcilable accounts of how two Americans last week became casualties of the guerrilla warfare against Nicaragua's Sandinista government. The first, relatively neutral version, given by contra spokesmen, and the second, accusative account, provided by Nicaraguan officials, seemed tailored to fit their opposite political purposes. But the incident stirred a new controversy over whether the CIA has been accepting the voluntary help of American civilians to support the contras since last May, when Congress cut off further funding of the CIA's not-so-covert operation in Nicaragua. It also focused attention...
...First Priority as Prime Minister. In general, it is to begin the process of restoring Canada. First, we have to civilize our conduct of internal relations. We've had guerrilla warfare going on in various levels of government. An example? For 15 years the governments of Newfoundland and Labrador have been trying to negotiate an arrangement with Ottawa for the development of the extraordinary Hibernia offshore oil and gas resources. They've been unable to do so because of the Liberal contention that either you develop it Ottawa's way or you don't develop...
...Louvain in the 1950s. A few years later he was a lay missionary in Brazil. There he was appalled by the misery of the masses he had come to inspire with the message of Christ. Soon he had become a follower of Marx and Che Guevara and a guerrilla fighting with the Communists. Eventually he was tried and convicted as a subversive and deported back to Europe. A naturalized Frenchman, Detrez was appointed a cultural attache to the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua by France's Socialist government...
Though there has not been a sustained rebel assault since January, Salvadoran military officers concede that the leftists may only be conserving strength for the annual fall offensive. At the moment, however, the guerrillas are not faring as well as they were a year ago. Recent bank and store robberies indicate that they are hurting for cash. The rebels have apparently run short of recruits: according to U.S. officials, at least 1,500 villagers have been kidnaped over the past six months to serve in the 10,000-member Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), the main guerrilla group...
...mission: to serve as reminders of the Reagan Administration's determination to stop the spread of Marxism-Leninism from Nicaragua to the rest of Central America. Meanwhile, leaders of the 10,000-member Nicaraguan Democratic Force of anti-Sandinista rebels known as contras declared they would intensify their guerrilla attacks against the Nicaraguan regime, despite a U.S. congressional cutoff in May of covert Administration aid to the war effort...