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...there were no surprises. Since the opening of the trial on Oct. 20, the outcome had never been in doubt. Ample evidence, and Hasenfus' own admission, confirmed that the former Marine had been delivering weapons to the U.S.-backed contras when his C-123K cargo plane was downed over Nicaragua on Oct. 5. For that act, Hasenfus was found guilty of terrorism, illicit association and violation of public security. He received a 30-year sentence, the maximum penalty under Nicaraguan law, and will seek an appeal...
Secretary of State George Shultz went on the road last week to defend American policy toward Nicaragua. During a speech in Guatemala before the 16th General Assembly of the Organization of American States, he offered little hope for a negotiated settlement. "Foreign intervention in the form of alien ideologies and foreign cadres -- from Cuba, the Soviet Union, East Germany, North Korea, Viet Nam and Libya -- is at this very moment promoting instability and violence in Central America," said Shultz. "The only road to peace and stability is to eliminate that alien intervention." He asserted that "there would be a great...
...confrontational U.S. policy of support for the contras. "The United States insists on using force, and we reject force," complained a diplomat at the meeting. Luis Gonzales Posada, Peru's Ambassador to the OAS, said U.S. support for the rebels "makes the situation worse." Meanwhile Miguel d'Escoto, Nicaragua's Foreign Minister, charged that the "colossus from the north" was the cause of the "problem in Central America and the problems in Latin America." His deputy, Victor Hugo Tinoco, warned that as a result of U.S. intervention in the region, the danger of a war between Nicaragua and Honduras...
News trickled out last week of major skirmishes in the part of Honduras that juts into Nicaragua's northern Jinotega province. According to Western intelligence officials in Central America, fighting raged for three days during the last week of October, involving roughly 500 Sandinista and 500 rebel soldiers. In the first significant battle since last March, dozens were left dead and at least 100 were wounded. There was also confirmation last week of two contra ambushes in central Nicaragua during the first week of November that killed ten people, including Alfonso Nunez Rodriguez, a prominent Sandinista peasant organizer...
...official held out some hope that the couple's ordeal would quickly end. "Christmas is a time for pardons. It is a tradition here," he said. "Leniency can and should be expected. Nicaragua is not out for revenge." Other officials were less generous. "He should get 30 years in prison," said Comandante Victor Tirado Lopez. Last week El Nuevo Diario, a progovernment newspaper, quoted an official as saying, "The possibility that Soldier of Fortune Eugene Hasenfus will be pardoned in the short term by the Sandinista government is practically...