Word: nicaraguan
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...Salvadoran guerrillas if the U.S. would only provide hard information about the location of the aid-an offer repeated in Ortega's interview with TIME. For nearly a year, the U.S. has pointed to the existence of a Salvadoran guerrilla command center in the suburban outskirts of the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. The Sandinistas have just as pointedly ignored the U.S. information. Nonetheless, officials in Washington have expressed interest in the latest Nicaraguan offer of cooperation. They would hardly believe in Nicaraguan sincerity, however, if the Managua command station did not shut down...
Late last week the State Department attempted to back up its claims of Nicaraguan aid to the Salvadoran rebels by releasing its second White Paper in two years on the subject (the first was issued in February 1981). Once again Washington asserted that Cuba, with Soviet help, was trying to "consolidate control of the Sandinista directorate in Nicaragua and to overthrow the governments of El Salvador and Guatemala...
...interview with TIME, Alejandro Montenegro, 28, a former member of the Salvadoran rebel faction known as the People's Revolutionary Army, declared that starting in 1980, Salvadoran guerrillas "were sent to Managua for training." Communications between the rebels and their leaders are also funneled through the Nicaraguan capital, via hand-held Japanese two-way radios. Regarding arms shipments, Montenegro said, "I would get a radio signal to go to [San Salvador]. Teams had gathered together the arms shipments as they came in, and they had the responsibility for transporting them to us." The source of the clandestine arms shipments...
Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott made an inspection tour of the embattled Nicaraguan town of Jalapa (pop. 10,000) on the Honduran border. Suddenly their convoy was ambushed by a force of U.S.-backed contras. Two Sandinistas were killed and six wounded in the attack. The 18 journalists on the trip, including the three from TIME, escaped unharmed. The TIME team's eyewitness report...
...drive us down the road, where another group was lying in wait to finish us off. Fortunately, the trap was sprung before the convoy was completely inside. As the blood-and dust-covered bodies were carried into the hospital for last rites, administered by the town priest, a Nicaraguan television crew trained its camera on the four Americans watching the scene. Our interpreter, a young woman, broke down in tears and said, "I hate what your Government is doing...