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...MANAGUA, Nicaragua--Government forces surrounded the city of Isteli in northern Nicaragua by airlift yesterday to attack the last guerrilla strongholds there...
Scattered fighting was reported from Chinandega, which the guard wrested from the rebels Sunday. There was some shooting overnight in Managua where businessmen vowed to continue a nationwide strike they called August 25 to pressure Somoza to resign...
...MANAGUA, Nicaragua--President Anastasio Somoza's government, claiming near victory against rebels in the north, said yesterday that Venezuela had thrown its military support behind the insurgents, sending warplanes to back a rebel attack in the south...
...MANAGUA, Nicaragua--The Anastasio Somoza dictatorship came full circle yesterday when it imposed military censorship on the country's only national opposition paper, La Prensa. The January 10 assassination of La Prensa's publisher, Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, set off the current wave of anti-Somoza violence, in which at least 500 persons have been killed and 1000 wounded this week...
...MANAGUA, Nicaragua--President Anastasio Somoza declared martial law throughout his embattled nation Wednesday night as Nicaraguan government troops clashed with rebels trying to overthrow...