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Stover estimated the number of demonstrators outside the university's career center at 30, although other observers said the number was closer to 75. The protesters chanted "USA, CIA out of Nicaragua...
...also agreed to help Honduras upgrade its existing squadron of a dozen French Super Mystere fighter jets, half of which are in disrepair. Even without the Kfir jets, Honduras enjoys air superiority over neighboring Nicaragua, and the U.S. decision is likely to make the Sandinistas more eager to obtain MiG-21s from the Soviet Union...
...violation of public security, conspiracy to commit illicit acts. As Monterrey droned on, it became clear that more was at stake than the fate of Hasenfus, who was captured ferrying weapons to U.S.-backed contra rebels after Sandinista troops shot down an American ! Fairchild C-123K cargo plane over Nicaragua three weeks ago. The prosecution would attempt to try the U.S. Government itself for "Yanqui interventions" dating from the 1850s. Complained former U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell, a member of Hasenfus' defense team: "He is an absolute pawn...
...rebels are expected to go after political targets, like the Interior Ministry's security agents, and to avoid Nicaragua's well-equipped, 119,000- strong armed forces. Meanwhile, U.S. officials will try to convince the top contra commanders to move out of their bases in Honduras and push into Nicaragua. The North Atlantic coast, remote and sparsely populated, is considered the most secure place to set up headquarters...
Once the contras are firmly established on Nicaraguan soil, Washington might recognize them as a provisional government-in-arms. Such a scenario, which would require the U.S. to break diplomatic relations with Nicaragua, has been rumored for the past two years. But the Sandinistas apparently are growing more worried. Two weeks ago Carlos Tunnermann, the capable Nicaraguan Ambassador to Washington, gave up that post to become his country's representative to the Organization of American States. Says one U.S. official: "They don't want to lose him, in case the embassy here gets shut down...