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...been high profile. When it was being distributed in Nicaragua, however, it seems the manual was also highflying. Congressional investigators revealed last week that packets of the controversial booklets were attached to about 100 specially designed balloons and floated from neighboring Honduras to Nicaragua last March to scare the leftist Sandinista government by creating the impression that the Washington-backed rebel effort was more widespread than it was. The airborne handbooks, coated in plastic to make them water-resistant, were among 3,000 printed at CIA headquarters. But only a fraction were ever sent aloft, because the agency was short...
...Maurice Bishop Patriotic Movement, the remnant of the revolutionary New Jewel Movement, which seized power from Gairy in 1979. The M.B.P.M., headed by former Industrial Development Minister Kendrick Radix, was named after Maurice Bishop, the charismatic New Jewel founder who was assassinated by a hard-line faction of his leftist party six days before U.S. troops arrived on Grenada. The trial of 19 former New Jewel members for the murder of Bishop, 39, and ten of his followers was stalled last week by procedural wrangling...
That sort of security is useful nowadays in Bogotá. U.S. and Colombian authorities believe the bombing was the work not of leftist, anti-U.S. terrorists, but of a powerful Colombian drug mafia intent on discouraging recent efforts by the two governments to curb the country's multibillion-dollar cocaine and marijuana industry. In response to a U.S.-Colombian move to extradite 78 Colombian dealers to face charges in the U.S., unnamed drug barons three weeks ago threatened to kill five Americans for every Colombian extradited. Colombian police believe that the prime target of last week...
...traditionally center-right organization that has been moving leftward; jailed upon returning last June from eleven years of exile, he was freed after last week's election. The other was Liber Seregni, 67, a former army general who heads the Frente Amplio (Broad Front), a coalition of five leftist parties. When the votes were tallied, the Colorados had won a 40% plurality, compared with 34% for the Blancos and 21% for the Frente Amplio. The rest went to a small conservative group...
...weaponry exceeded the response to previous street demonstrations, which have cost the lives of at least 110 civilians in the past 18 months. Last week's show of muscle was preceded by a campaign of intimidation at nearly every civilian level. Police made scores of arrests of leftist political and labor leaders. A government spokesman informed foreign newsmen that their credentials had been canceled and that they would have to apply for new ones...