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...members of the revolutionary army of Nicaragua collided with roughly equal numbers of Miskito Indians, members of a Nicaraguan tribe that has rebelled against their country's Marxist-dominated Sandinista government. When the shooting stopped at least eight Indians were dead, according to sketchy local reports, and the Honduran government was enraged at a clear violation of its borders by the Sandinista forces. The ill-equipped Honduran army went on full alert, Honduran troops sped to the trouble zone, and the foreign ministry angrily berated Nicaragua...
...Private Enterprise. The government accused both the left and the right of criticizing official policy, a practice that is now a serious offense in Nicaragua. Last week, while U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd visited the country, the Sandinistas banned three radio news programs for reporting "misinformation and lies" about the Honduran incursion...
...armed incidents along the Honduran border continue to occur, the Sandinistas have been studying the possibility of declaring an internal "state of war" that would allow the government still greater justification for military mobilization and provide a popular rallying point. Meanwhile, the danger of a real "state of war" increases as Nicaragua's armed forces grow...
...tortillas and a little bit of sugar so they would not cry because they were afraid that if they cried the Army would find them and if they found them they would kill all of them." They feared with reason. May 14, 1981, on the Sumpul River near the Honduran border, the Salvadoran National Guard, the paramilitary ORDEN group, and at least two military helicopters massacred as many as 600 women and children. According to a Brooklyn-born priest who witnessed the one-sided fighting, women were "tortured before the finishing shot, infants thrown into the air for target practice...
Sandinista speeches also began to take on a decidedly paranoiac tinge, helped along, in part, by U.S. naval maneuvers last October off the nearby Honduran coast. When Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega warned that the country's enemies "will be hanging along the roads and highways" in the event of a U.S. invasion, COSEP leaders reacted. In an open letter, they charged that "the national economy shows no signs of recuperation, social peace has not been found, the country finds itself in spiraling debt, with no foreseeable end." The directorate thereupon threw four COSEP leaders in jail, along with...