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...guerrillas attribute their recent successes less to the quality of their guns than to the fact that they are getting effective guidance from both Nicaraguans and Cubans. Field commanders from El Salvador make frequent trips to Managua for consultations, and some travel to Cuba every two or three months to review tactics and targets...
...that at least some weaponry is coming through Nicaragua. The considerable Cuban influence in Nicaragua is increasingly resented by the populace. There are now about 6,000 Cubans in the country, including teachers, doctors, technicians and advisers to the armed forces and state security apparatus. At a suburb outside Managua last week, a local resident pointed to some comfortable-looking villas under construction. "See those?" he said. "They're not for us. They're not for 'the people.' They're for the Cubans." He spat out the words...
Coupled with the knowledge that Washington turns the other cheek to the training of counter-revolutionaries in Florida, direct U.S. efforts to tumble the government in Managua lend credibility to the Sandinistas' claim that the recent Nicaraguan military build-up is for defensive purposes. They also unnecessarily heighten tension in a region that has more than enough to spare...
...from Moscow and Havana. John T. Hughes, the very same Government intelligence expert who first translated specks on the Cuban terrain as Soviet missiles in 1962, returned to the stage, pointer in hand. The eyeball-to-eyeball allusions were plentiful, though somehow outdated Russian T-55s parked near Managua seem less of a direct threat to U.S. interests than did medium-range missiles off the coast of Florida...
...Miskitos were killed during a Shootout at a Moravian church in Prinzapolka. One of those arrested was Steadman Fagoth Miiller, 27, a militant young Miskito leader feared by the Sandinistas. On his release in May, he quickly fled to Honduras, where he unambiguously declared himself in opposition to the Managua government...