Word: rebel
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...Wednesday morning Nicaraguan troops were detected crossing the border into Honduras to attack rebel bases there. White House officials immediately responded by suggesting to Honduran President Jose Azcona Hoyo an American "show of support" that would stop short of a combat role. On Wednesday evening Ambassador to Honduras Everett Briggs relayed a letter from Azcona to the White House requesting assistance. The letter did not specifically mention troops, but Azcona later confirmed in a news conference that he had orally asked for this option. Reagan then gave the go-ahead to send four battalions -- two each from the 82nd Airborne...
...Sandinistas and the contras sat down this week for their first face-to-face meeting at Sapoa, Nicaragua, they added another chapter to the book of American failures in Central America. Even if "neither side seeks a military victory over the other," as rebel negotiator Alfredo Cesar said after Monday's talk, the truth of the matter is that a diplomatic peace is also far from the minds of both sides...
...American aid to the contras in February, Managua believes it can win on the battlefield what it can't on the negotiating table. Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega displayed these noble intentions last week when more than 4000 Sandinista troops poured over the Honduran border in search of the main rebel supply depot. Was it just last August that Ortega signed the Arias Peace plan...
Contra leader Alfredo Cesar, head of the rebel delegation, called the Sandinista proposal "constructive," and added, "If they do this, then we also can take the same measures...
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...