Word: managua
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Gradually Rutger began to calm down. He took out his airline ticket and reread it approvingly. "Well, my friend, in just 10 hours we'll be in Managua. Mighty fine airline, Capitalist Insurgency Airways...
...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...
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...
...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...
Hasenfus' wife, Sally, accompanied U.S. officials to the Foreign Ministry, but did not leave with them. She arrived in Managua on Wednesday night...