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...military showdown, however, was overshadowed last week by a propaganda battle between Managua and Washington as both sides sought to score points off the Hasenfus trial. Nicaraguan officials, including President Daniel Ortega, have indicated that Hasenfus will be found guilty, then released as early as Thanksgiving. "It's a chance to show Americans how kindhearted they are," scoffed Antonio Tijerino, a Washington-based attorney for the contras. U.S. officials, meanwhile, branded the tribunal a kangaroo court. Since it was established in 1983, the court, perhaps unsurprisingly, has had a 99% conviction rate. Each panel consists of a lawyer who serves...
Repeated telephone calls were placed from a safe house in El Salvador used by Americans aiding Nicaraguan rebels to the office of a White House official who has overseen U.S. policy against Nicaragua's leftist government, according to Salvadoran phone bills...
Another source close to the Contra aid network said the bills could have been concocted by Nicaraguan intelligence agents. But two Associated Press reporters, who have examined the documents, said they appeared to be genuine bills from Antel, the Salvadoran government's telephone company...
Other documents captured by the Nicaraguan military from the downed C-123 also linked the U.S. government to the plane's occupants...
...officials caught last week in the ever widening web of intrigue surrounding the downed plane. Two days after Edwin Corr, the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, denied knowing Gomez, a Corr aide said the two men had lunched together. Meanwhile, Philip Buechler, a director in the State Department's Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Office whose card was carried on the C-123K flight by Pilot William Cooper, angrily denied any connection with the supply runs. Said he: "Maybe it's none of anybody's business. Whatever happened to the right of privacy, to basic freedom of association in this country...