Word: jalapa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nicaraguan side of the border, killing the two men instantly. The Sandinistas had been harassing the road for nearly a month with machine-gun, mortar and grenade fire, killing at least five people in previous incidents. The firing was part of a campaign to secure the hills around Jalapa, a strategically located town of 10,000 in the tobacco-growing area of northern Nicaragua...
Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott made an inspection tour of the embattled Nicaraguan town of Jalapa (pop. 10,000) on the Honduran border. Suddenly their convoy was ambushed by a force of U.S.-backed contras. Two Sandinistas were killed and six wounded in the attack. The 18 journalists on the trip, including the three from TIME, escaped unharmed. The TIME team's eyewitness report...
After a briefing in Jalapa, our seven-car caravan, carrying 40 people, was headed for an airstrip outside of town, where a Soviet-built, single-engine biplane was to fly us back to Managua. We were warned of trouble ahead as we passed a roadblock, but our hosts decided to proceed. It was a mistake. Barely four miles out of town, the air was suddenly filled with the sound of machine gunfire. The convoy had come under ambush from a force of 80 to 100 contras hidden between trees on one side of the road and in back of barns...