Word: matagalpa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disastrous, revealing her as shockingly unfamiliar with economic and foreign-policy issues. She has also spent considerable time out of the country, raising funds among wealthy exiles and testing the world stage. This has made little impression on an electorate more worried about the price of food in Matagalpa...
...harsh afternoon sun was setting as the cortege made its way up the steep incline. Some of the men, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra among them, rotated as pallbearers. At the hilltop cemetery overlooking Matagalpa, a city 75 miles northeast of Managua, the crowd of more than 1,000 paid their final respects to Benjamin Linder, 27, an engineer from Oregon who died last week of shrapnel wounds suffered during a contra attack. He was the first American volunteer working on behalf of the Sandinistas to die in Nicaragua's five-year-old civil war. Linder's parents...
Linder's body yesterday was in Matagalpa, a Nicaraguan provincial capital, where a ceremony was held in his honor...
...Matagalpa, Nicaragua, dozens of wreaths surrounded the casket of the red-bearded engineer, who went to Nicaragua...
...however, takes the Sandinistas lightly. A guerrilla named Huaspaca recalled fighting last February in the Matagalpa region to the south: "It was rough, and the Sandinistas invaded our positions. They use less men than before, but they employ a lot more artillery." Added a contra known as Chicle, who was a sergeant in former President Anastasio Somoza's National Guard: "The Sandinistas use everything at their disposal. When they are in trouble, they call in air support or artillery. Under those circumstances we have to curtail our operations. They are capable in war, but remember they are being advised...