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...Contras' statement said Linder was killed Tuesday near La Camaleona, located about 45 miles from the Honduran border...
...lifeline begins at a camp at a hidden airstrip along the Nicaraguan- Honduran border. From there, goods are piled into motor-driven dugouts and shipped down the Bocay to remote supply points. Much of the traffic goes through a hilltop base deep inside the jungle. Armed guards are posted outside the facility, which is little more than a day's march from the fighting in central Jinotega. At the base, located some 25 miles inside Nicaragua, boxes of ammunition and mortar rounds are secured beneath camouflaged tarpaulins, and a radio operator maintains static-filled contact with forces...
SOMETIMES WHEN the weather is right I'll check in on the Cambridge City Council. This is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. I keep on hoping that one day they'll make a mistake, like misfiling some documents and banning Honduran refugees instead of nuclear weapons. But it hasn't happened yet. It would be unethical to create a furor merely for the sake of writing about it, so I couldn't submit a proposal to outlaw chrome-and-nylon eight-wheeled baby strollers. Maybe I will anyway...
...Hondurans, however, wanted more. Early last year Honduran military men secretly bought millions of dollars' worth of weapons. The plan was to sell them -- at wildly inflated prices -- to the CIA for delivery to the contras after the U.S. resumed open, legal military aid to the Nicaraguan rebels. Buy, said the Hondurans, or we will not let supplies of any kind reach the contras. At that point, the supply operation was shifted to Ilopango. There it remained until a mini-coup in the Honduran armed forces last November threw out officials who were accused of fiscal misbehavior...
...invention bring to mind the "magic realism" of Latin American fiction, Rushdie felt himself obscurely allied with the revolutionary government in Nicaragua. Last summer he accepted the invitation of the Sandinista leadership to inspect the seven-year-old revolution. For three weeks he attended rallies, journeyed to the Honduran border and hung out with the comandantes, eating turtle and chatting about literature...