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...Nicaraguan Democratic Force, or FDN, said that it held the leftist government of Nicaragua responsible for the death of the first American to die in Nicaragua's civil war. Nicaragua said the U.S. government was to blame for supporting the Contras...
...first American volunteer working for the Sandinistas to be killed in the Contras' five-year-old war against the leftist government. Seven European volunteers have been killed since...
...Reagan Administration considers the Soviet leader' s proposal for eliminating nuclear missiles from Europe. -- How the zero option grew from a leftist slogan to the main plank of an arms- control agreement. -- Gary Hart, lone political warrior, officially enters the 1988 race. -- Florida prepares for new taxes, while a Texas town, tired of fighting city hall, eliminates...
...wounded were screaming, and we didn't know what was happening." At about 2 a.m., the first mortar fire crashed into the Salvadoran army's garrison at El Paraiso, just 36 miles from the capital of San Salvador. In a daring and well- planned attack last week, leftist guerrillas of the Popular Liberation Forces killed at least 69 government soldiers, as well as a U.S. military adviser, Staff Sergeant Gregory Fronius, 27, of Greensburg, Pa. He was the first American to die in combat during El Salvador's seven-year-old civil war, though five U.S. soldiers have been murdered...
...mystery only whetted the appetite of the leftist weekly Liberation. The spy ring, the paper reported, was run by the Soviet deputy air attache in Paris, Valery Konorev, who doubled as an agent for Soviet military intelligence. Among other things, Konorev's gang was reportedly seeking technical information about the rocket engine of the Ariane missile, the % launch vehicle used by the 13-member European Space Agency...