Word: hasenfus
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Dates: during 1986-1986
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Shortly after his capture by Sandinista troops, former U.S. Marine Eugene Hasenfus, 45, the sole survivor of the four-man crew, linked the ill-fated supply mission to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Moreover, a passel of memos, business cards and logbooks found aboard the aircraft produced a trail of American names and phone numbers from California to Washington. The evidence raised an outcry in the capital, and for good reason: any direct American involvement in the Nicaraguan war would violate a ban laid down by Congress...
Brain Darling, president of the campus Republican Club, which organized the rally, called the captive, Eugene Hasenfus, "a good American, who was doing what the United States should have been doing all along--fighting Communism in South America...
Nicaraguan officials have said Hasenfus faces up to 30 years in prison, although no charges have been filed...
Asked when the Sandinistas would allow U.S. officials to see Hasenfus, Tyson said, "I really don't have anything...
...Hasenfus' wife, Sally, accompanied U.S. officials to the Foreign Ministry, but did not leave with them. She arrived in Managua on Wednesday night...