Word: nicaraguan
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...guerrillas in Nicaragua-has met with little success. In the past fortnight, two events took place in Costa Rica, a neutral neighbor, that illustrate both the hope and the frustration of finding a peaceful solution to the region's two civil wars. The first event: four noted Nicaraguan dissidents, who are opponents of the Sandinistas but are not associated with U.S.-backed guerrillas, offered to act as intermediaries between the Nicaraguan government and the insurgents in bringing about a national conciliation. The second, and potentially the more dramatic development: Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge worked secretly to arrange...
...deaths and warned Nicaragua that the U.S. considers Honduras to be "of great importance." He added that "the large-scale shipments of arms to Nicaragua from the Soviet Union, sometimes direct and [sometimes] through Cuba, is not appreciated by us." Only a day earlier a defector from the Nicaraguan counterintelligence forces, Miguel Bolanos Hunter, had declared in Washington that Nicaragua was in the process of acquiring a Soviet air-defense system along with 80 MiG fighter planes. In a press conference arranged by the State Department, Bolanos also contended that the Nicaraguan government had concocted the story of an American...
...were not only diverting his men from more urgent tasks but, as Americans, were in some way responsible for their predicament. The encampment had come under direct attack only three days before in an eleven-hour shelling siege, and Zero Three announced that two battalions of perhaps 1,500 Nicaraguan troops still surrounded them on three sides, leaving open only the mountainous retreat into Honduras. "This place is now dangerous," he said. "They have helicopters, mortars and troops. It's only a question of when they hit us again." Commander "Max," who was supposed to have...
Tuesday midafternoon the journalists headed back to Tegucigalpa from Las Trojes, where they had been checking on firing by Nicaraguan troops into Honduras to harass contra insurgents. Just after the two men's rented car, a white Toyota, passed Honduran Truckdriver Jose Cruz Espinal, he saw a grenade split the car almost in half; then machine-gun fire spattered the road. The shots came from terrain held by Nicaragua's Sandinista government. The killings could hardly have been an accident: the men were almost certainly identifiable as civilians; the attackers probably shot from no more than...
...nature of this relationship was illustrated in the deaths last week of two American journalists, Dial Torgerson and Richard Cross, who were killed when their white, rented Toyota was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade on a road in Honduras near the Nicaraguan border (see PRESS). Nicaraguan soldiers apparently added machine-gun fire to the damage of the grenade. This kind of story always startles people, though it is hard...