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Gunrunner Eugene Hasenfus, pardoned from a 30-year jail term in Nicaragua and carrying the key to his cell, returned to the United States yesterday, thanking God that "I was able to be free and be with my family" for Christmas...
...Hasenfus said in Guatemala that Nicaraguan Interior Minister Tomas Borge, who oversees the national penal system, had given him the key to his cell at Tipitapa prison, 12 miles east of Managua...
...been turned over in Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, on Wednesday to Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) who discussed the Hasenfus case with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega the previous...
...funds were used to finance the string of airlifts that have delivered supplies to the rebels during the past few months. Those flights received unwanted publicity two months ago, when a C-123K air-transport plane was shot down over southern Nicaragua and an American crew member, Eugene Hasenfus, was captured and tried by the Sandinistas. But most of the supplies, according to a knowledgeable source, consisted of boots, clothing and small arms...
There is now vague talk of a "Wisconsin solution." Nicaraguan Vice President Sergio Ramirez may travel this week to Wisconsin, which has been Nicaragua's sister state since the early '60s and happens to be Hasenfus' home state as well. The hope is that some sisterly arrangement can be worked out so that Hasenfus will be back in Wisconsin for Christmas...