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...aimed primarily at strengthening Nicaragua internally. But the Defense Department was concerned that it might be the prelude to a Nicaraguan strike at Honduras or Costa Rica, another neighboring country from which anti-Sandinista exiles have been conducting guerrilla operations against Nicaragua. The same fear had been expressed by Honduran officials, who were concerned that by letting the main group of contras set up bases and train in their country with U.S. arms, they might be exposing themselves to Nicaraguan invasion. The Sandinistas, for their part, charge that the contra campaign is designed to provide a pretext...
...support troops helped to airlift Honduran soldiers to an area near the Nicaraguan border and to construct a new military base...
...Arellano, 53, a wealthy U.S. citizen, cattle rancher and landowner in Honduras, thought he was doing the patriotic thing. In return for "fair compensation," he agreed on June 4 to turn over up to 2,000 acres of his 14,000-acre ranch, near Puerto Castilla, Honduras, to Honduran military officials so that U.S. military advisers could set up a base for training Salvadoran troops. Later that day, the U.S. embassy informed him that the agreement was not valid. On June 6, bulldozers showed up anyway...
...dispute is a question of jurisdiction. Ramirez says the U.S. is responsible because the training center "was proposed. . . . and is financed, directly or indirectly, by the United States." The U.S. argues that Honduras controls the training center, and that Ramirez's claims should be settled in a Honduran court. Said one U.S. attorney: "The regional military training facility is a Honduran facility. We are there by their invitation." Following a two-hour hearing last Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Richey indicated that he would not make a ruling until this week at the earliest. Says Ramirez...
...definition, a true fix, and might well end up being the opposite. Sending in U.S. combat forces would surely wreak political havoc at home before it could prove decisive against the guerrillas in El Salvador. As for Nicaragua, a full-scale U.S.-supported invasion by the contras and the Honduran armed forces might drive the Sandinistas back into the countryside, but almost certainly the war would go on, and the U.S. would have little stomach...