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...killing of the two Americans provoked a volley of charges and counter-charges between Honduras and Nicaragua. The Honduran government, which quietly allows the CIA to provide assistance to the contras based within its borders, accused the Sandinistas of violating Honduran sovereignty. The Nicaraguans, who claim to be at a disadvantage in the border fighting because they do not pursue the contras into their Honduran sanctuaries, denied responsibility for the killings. The incident, nonetheless, revealed just how precarious the situation has become along the mountainous border between the two countries...
...contra offensive had not significantly changed. Impressions drawn by reporters on the scene represented, according to a U.S. intelligence expert, a "worm's-eye view." He added, "Some contra units may be coming under pressure from Sandinista troops, but the contras are not being pushed out of Nicaragua." Maybe not, but they are certainly having their difficulties, as TIME Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter discovered last week when he crossed the Honduran border to visit contra positions.* His report...
There was trouble almost from the beginning. In the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa the day before, the F.D.N. leadership had promised an extended ten-day trip through the territory they hold inside Nicaragua. But when we arrived at "Base Nicarao," one of the contras' two main northern bases, we were greeted only by a chorus of F.D.N. recruits, ranging from boys of 14 to weathered campesinos singing anti-Sandinista war hymns, including one to the tune of When Johnny Comes Marching Home...
...fast turnabout in the contras' fortunes is occurring along much of the border between Honduras and Nicaragua. The F.D.N.'s field commanders admit that they have withdrawn all their forward troops to the rear mountain zones. Equally unmistakable is the new mood that has replaced the euphoria of early spring. The F.D.N.'s political and military leaders are divided among themselves. "Our people feel we are fighting a much more powerful enemy than we ever expected," admits a worried F.D.N. leader. "They have trucks and planes and are even bringing vans of Pepsi-Cola to the front...
...Trojes is a pleasant, ordinary scribble between mountains at roadside and a green valley. Peasants pick their way as rickety trucks rumble by. The main thing to interest a foreign visitor on the stretch, a four-hour drive southeast of the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, is that the border with Nicaragua is as little as 20 or 30 yards away. There is a sporadic, undeclared war between the two countries; the proximity can mean "action"-gunfire. Last week that promise of a story drew Reporter Dial Torgerson, 55, of the Los Angeles Times, and Freelance Photographer Richard Cross, 33, on assignment...