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...covert operations in Nicaragua. Redman also detailed the debate over the CIA'S role in Central America. The story even spread into a Washington federal courtroom, where Justice Department Correspondent David Jackson reported on an American businessman who is suing the U.S. for occupying part of his Honduran ranch in order to train Salvadoran soldiers. In all, nine Washington correspondents, as well as 32 correspondents and reporters in Latin America and elsewhere, filed reports for the cover stories. "It isn't a record," said Ajemian as he reviewed the week's efforts. "But it certainly kept...
...Salvadoran troops in fast-reaction techniques to counter guerrilla attacks. Later this year the Green Berets will train four 350-man Salvadoran battalions in cazador (hunter) tactics to seek out rebel units. Seventy-three U.S. trainers in Honduras are split into mobile teams to provide expertise sought by the Honduran military...
...gravel road from Cifuentes to Las Trojes is a pleasant, ordinary scribble between mountains at roadside and a green valley. Peasants pick their way as rickety trucks rumble by. The main thing to interest a foreign visitor on the stretch, a four-hour drive southeast of the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, is that the border with Nicaragua is as little as 20 or 30 yards away. There is a sporadic, undeclared war between the two countries; the proximity can mean "action"-gunfire. Last week that promise of a story drew Reporter Dial Torgerson, 55, of the Los Angeles Times, and Freelance...
Tuesday midafternoon the journalists headed back to Tegucigalpa from Las Trojes, where they had been checking on firing by Nicaraguan troops into Honduras to harass contra insurgents. Just after the two men's rented car, a white Toyota, passed Honduran Truckdriver Jose Cruz Espinal, he saw a grenade split the car almost in half; then machine-gun fire spattered the road. The shots came from terrain held by Nicaragua's Sandinista government. The killings could hardly have been an accident: the men were almost certainly identifiable as civilians; the attackers probably shot from no more than...
There was no evidence that Cross and Torgerson were killed specifically because they were newsmen. The grim news certainly did not long deflect reporters whose luck was still holding. The day after Cross and Torgerson were killed, a Honduran official pleaded with some journalists to stay out of the area. But Juan Tamayo of the Herald and Photographer Sill talked their way past military checkpoints and ignored bursts of nearby gunfire. They turned back only when they saw that the road ahead had been newly mined...