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...Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.), by far the largest contra group, has between 8,000 and 9,000 soldiers, up from 6,000 last year. Operating from enclaves in Honduras and bases in northern Nicaragua, they have swept as far south as the city of Matagalpa, about 60 miles north of Managua. New F.D.N. recruits must rely on rusty, World War I-vintage Mauser bolt-action rifles, given by the CIA in 1982. Though weapons and ammunition have been in woefully short supply, the stockpile is growing again. According to high- level F.D.N. sources, the contras possess an unspecified number...
...pursuing Sandinista soldiers. Contra leaders claim that Sandinista military morale is drooping. At a "war room" in a campsite near a Honduran army base outside Tegucigalpa, the contras displayed wall-size military maps charting the progress of their latest offensive in the Nicaraguan provinces of Nueva Segovia, Jinotega, Matagalpa and Zelaya Norte. Said contra Military Commander Enrique Bermudez: "The Sandinistas are not so enthusiastic in their fighting. We are very confident...
Although the overall results of the contra campaign are difficult to determine, it is having a dire effect in some areas. Rancho Grande, a hamlet of wooden and tin-roofed dwellings in the coffee-growing region of Matagalpa, 35 miles from the Honduran border, was struck by the rebels last week. Two members of the local militia force, numbering about 25, were killed, along with a French microbiologist, Pierre Grosjean, 32, who was visiting the area to study leishmaniasis, an ulcerating skin disease. After the Rancho Grande assault, Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra, whose brother Daniel is coordinator...
...central Nicaraguan towns. They also say that they "control" (meaning, actually, that they enjoy freedom of movement in) an area covering the northern quarter of the country. The contras' campaign began to attract international attention when their clandestine radio station reported heavy fighting near the provincial center of Matagalpa, only 70 miles north of Managua...
Until elections can be held, at least two years from now, local governments are being literally hailed into office. In Matagalpa, for example, five candidates selected by the F.S.L.N. lined up on the steps of a church. "Do you approve of these men as your representatives?" bellowed a Sandinista commander dressed in combat fatigues to the thousands assembled in the plaza below. "If you give them your vote, raise your hands." After an almost unanimous show of hands, the five were sworn in as the city's Municipal Reconstruction Junta, "in the name of the heroes and martyrs fallen...