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...publication are collecting medical supplies, uniforms and the like but insists they do not deal in arms. The magazine has, however, recruited specialists to teach the contras about weaponry and maintenance. One of its teams has been advising the rebels on how to counter Soviet-built Mi-24 Hind helicopter gunships that the Sandinistas are expected to deploy soon...
...largest of any single country in the area. Nicaragua has 150 tanks; Guatemala has ten and the other Central American nations none at all. Though the Sandinistas are deficient in combat aircraft, they boast 36 helicopters, including at least ten Soviet-made Hind gunships. Hopes that this military machine eventually may be cut back rose a bit last week. Representatives of Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Costa Rica, meeting in Panama, agreed to set up a commission to monitor the arms-reduction provisions of a regional treaty that they are trying to negotiate. But until an enforceable pact...
...that allowed the counterrevolution to utilize them," the evacuation could bring about an escalation of the war. Once the farmers are safely out of the way, the Nicaraguan military will have created a free-fire zone in which it can use some of the dozen or so Mi-24 "Hind" helicopters it has received from the Soviet Union. The gunships, equipped with rockets and fast-firing guns, wield devastating firepower. Said Orlando Osario, a refugee evacuated with his family to the town of Jinotega, some 100 miles north of Managua: "I figured it was better to get out alive...
...vintage Mauser bolt-action rifles, given by the CIA in 1982. Though weapons and ammunition have been in woefully short supply, the stockpile is growing again. According to high- level F.D.N. sources, the contras possess an unspecified number of surface- to-air missiles to counter the Soviet Mi-24 Hind-D helicopters that the Sandinistas received last fall. For the past two months, truck convoys have ferried weapons from Honduras, including West German G-3 automatic assault rifles and dynamite...
...several elite battalions about 600 strong trained in antiguerrilla warfare by North Korean and Vietnamese military advisers in 1983. The Sandinistas have a big edge in modern equipment, like Soviet AK-47 rifles and T-55 tanks. The rebels are nervously waiting for the Sandinistas to deploy their new Hind-D helicopters, which can fly 200 m.p.h. and carry air-to-surface missiles...