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...rebels contend that the future is not that bleak. The Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), the largest of the guerrilla groups, has about 6,000 troops, up from 4,500 a year ago, deep inside Nicaragua. FDN Leader Adolfo Calero Portocarrero says he is close to Unking forces with the Revolutionary Democratic Alliance (ARDE), another contra group operating in southern Nicaragua. The chiefs of two Miskito Indian rebel groups remain at odds, but disgruntled commanders in both camps are trying to forge an alliance on the battlefield. Though many divisions remain, the FDN is gradually exerting its control over the entire...
...contra leader in charge of the northern front of the covert war against Nicaragua insisted, somewhat implausibly, given the information leaking out in Washington, that "no U.S. citizen ever has been involved" in the mining of Nicaraguan ports. At a press conference in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, Adolfo Calero Portocarrero, leader of the rebel Nicaraguan Democratic Front (F.D.N.), said that his organization reserved the right to undertake similar actions in the future. The aim, said Calero, was to halt the massive flow of Soviet bloc weapons to the Sandinistas and, only incidentally, to prevent a portion of that arms...
...presence of ex-guardsmen in the F.D.N.'s military command has allowed the Sandinistas A hit-and-run to paint the contras as reactionaries who only want to bring back the dictatorship. Last week, in an effort to improve its image, the F.D.N. named Adolfo Calero Portocarrero, former president of the Nicaraguan Chamber of Commerce, as its president and commander in chief...
MARRIED. Anastasio Somoza ("Tachito") Portocarrero, 30, oldest son and onetime heir apparent to the late Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle; and Marisa Celasco Oberholzer, 24, Salvadoran socialite daughter of a Swiss mother and Italian businessman father; both for the first time; in Miami...
...Somoza forces. A few days before the assassination, the Nicaraguan junta revealed that it had thwarted a plot by former National Guard officers to free thousands of jailed former soldiers and put together teams to kill the Sandinista leadership. They identified Somoza's eldest son, Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza Portocarrero, 29, as the "principal leader" of the plot...