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President Jose Azcona Hoyo said the 32000 U.S. troops sent to Honduras last week, after the Nicaraguan army was accused of sending 2000 men across the border last Wednesday in pursuit of Contras, may not be needed any longer...
President Daniel Ortega and the Nicaraguan government have denied that Sandinista soldiers crossed the border...
...Nicaraguan Defense Ministry said the raid was on Nicaraguan territory and caused no damage. Azcona, in a telephone interview, would neither confirm nor deny the attack, but the Honduran military said it occurred on the Honduran side of the ill-defined border...
...became the first Reagan Administration official to plead guilty to crimes in the scandal. After negotiations with Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, McFarlane, 50, admitted that on four occasions in 1985 and 1986 he unlawfully withheld information from Congress about the National Security Council's secret military aid to the Nicaraguan rebels...
With the U.S. Congress rejecting two versions of contra aid packages in the past six weeks, the Nicaraguan rebels have found themselves fighting with their backs to the wall. Last week rebel leaders made two major decisions that reflected their desperation. First, they agreed to attend peace talks with the Sandinistas on March 21 in the Nicaraguan village of Sapoa. They thus dropped their once adamant demand that President Daniel Ortega Saavedra first institute internal reforms. The officials say they will probably have to withdraw half of the roughly 8,000 fighters from Nicaraguan territory by mid- April because...