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Word: managua (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Managua the Sandinistas announced they would try Hasenfus in a political tribunal scheduled to begin this week. Charged with violating laws guaranteeing order and public security, he could face 30 years in prison. The announcement was a rebuff to U.S. officials who have dismissed the Anti- Somocista People's Tribunals, as they are formally known, as kangaroo courts. According to the America's Watch Committee, a New York City-based human rights group, just one of the 559 defendants who came before the tribunals in 1985 was acquitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Notes Oct 27 1986 | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

Hasenfus was allowed only one minute with his wife Sally last week, and eleven minutes with a consular officer from the U.S. embassy in Managua. When she returned home to Marinette, Wis., Sally Hasenfus said her husband looked "very, very stiff." Said she: "I told him, 'We're not going to give up, and we're going to get you out of here.' " In Atlanta former Attorney General Griffin Bell announced that he would fly to Managua to defend Hasenfus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Notes Oct 27 1986 | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...MANAGUA, Nicaragua--An American captured after a Contra weapons supply plane was shot down over Nicaragua said yesterday he worked with CIA employees and took part in 10 such flights from Honduras and El Salvador...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Captured American Says He Is With CIA | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

Hasenfus' wife, Sally, accompanied U.S. officials to the Foreign Ministry, but did not leave with them. She arrived in Managua on Wednesday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Captured American Says He Is With CIA | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

...Richard Lugar, R-Ind., revealed the plan not long after the State Department raised the possibility that the U.S. Embassy in Managua may be shut down and accused Nicaragua of refusing U.S. officials consular access to American Eugene Hasenfus, captured when the airplane crashed Sunday in southern Nicaragua...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Panel Investigating Downed Plane | 10/9/1986 | See Source »

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