Word: miskito
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...contention denied by Nicaragua--that the leftist government there is Moscow's puppet and supplies arms to guerrillas fighting the U.S. backed Duarte regime in El. Salvador Reagan is also concerned by the substantial Nicaraguan arms buildup and with reported human rights violations against the rightist opposition and the Miskito Indians. Yet Washington has failed to substantiate its accusations. Nor has the State Department made any attempt to view the world through Nicaraguan eyes. Seen from Managua, the present danger is hardly the same one perceived by our foreign policy leaders...
What is more, Nicaragua is willing to use its force, as it illustrated unmistakably last week during a skirmish in the remote swamplands of eastern Honduras. Some 75 members of the revolutionary army of Nicaragua collided with roughly equal numbers of Miskito Indians, members of a Nicaraguan tribe that has rebelled against their country's Marxist-dominated Sandinista government. When the shooting stopped at least eight Indians were dead, according to sketchy local reports, and the Honduran government was enraged at a clear violation of its borders by the Sandinista forces. The ill-equipped Honduran army went on full...
Moving slowly through shallow reefs two weeks ago, a battered shrimp boat carrying a Nicaraguan newspaper editor and three Miskito Indian sailors approached the tiny Caribbean island of Quita Sueño (literally "takes away sleep"), 140 miles off Nicaragua's coast. One of the Indians transferred to a canoe and paddled ashore. Watching for any Colombian troops who might possibly be near by, he proudly raised the Nicaraguan flag over the rocky ground...