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Reliable details about the war are equally hard to get from the Nicaraguans. Managua's numbingly ponderous bureaucracy is a major and perhaps deliberate obstacle. Newsmen in the capital can grow old filling out endless forms for everything from an interview with a minor official to permission to travel to contested areas. And they can grow even older waiting for official approval. Many visitors give up after a week or two and head for home. "The government says war, war, war, but they won't let us cover it," says Jan Howard, a Managua-based reporter for CNN. "The biggest...
...Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: Dean Brelis Peking: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: William Stewart, Bing W. Wong Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Yukinori Ishikawa Melbourne: John Dunn Ottawa: Peter Stoler Caribbean: Bernard Diederich Mexico City: John Borrell, John Moody Managua: Laura Lopez Rio de Janeiro: Gavin Scott
...Sandinistas decided the best thing to do was to send Sam Hall back home. Two months ago Hall, 49, the brother of Ohio Congressman Tony P. Hall, was arrested outside an air force base near Managua with hand-drawn maps and sketches of military installations hidden in his socks. He was promptly accused of spying. The self-styled mercenary, described by former colleagues as having a Rambo complex, claimed that he was the sole surviving member of an anti-Communist fighting force called the Phoenix Battalion...
While in Nicaragua, the group will work in conjunction with the Medical School of the University of Managua, Goldberg said...
...Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: Dean Brelis Peking: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: William Stewart, Bing W. Wong Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Yukinori Ishikawa Melbourne: John Dunn Ottawa: Peter Stoler Caribbean: Bernard Diederich Mexico City: John Borrell, John Moody Managua: Laura Lopez Rio de Janeiro: Gavin Scott