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MANAGUA, Nicaragua--President Daniel Ortega ended a 19-month truce with Contra guerrillas yesterday, blaming the United States for renewed rebel attacks and accusing President Bush of "promoting death, assassination, crime and terrorism in Nicaragua...
What kind of rebel officers risk their lives to storm the lair of a hated military dictator, capture him at gunpoint, decline either to kill him or to turn him over to U.S. forces standing by to receive him, then let him contact his mistress, who calls loyal troops to his rescue...
...details of the botched coup emerge, it seems clear that the rebel force had potential that Washington underestimated. Noriega's subsequent roundup of plotters showed that the effort reached deep into the dictator's circle. Among the 37 arrested were three of the general's closest and most trusted associates: Colonel Guillermo Wong, head of military intelligence, Colonel Julio Ow Young, who oversees personnel for the dreaded Doberman militias that have repeatedly been turned on opposition rallies, and Lieut. Colonel Armando Palacios Gondola, head of an organization that supervised joint military operations with U.S. troops...
...nearly five months a bloody sabotage campaign by rebel landowners on the island of Bougainville has idled one of the world's largest copper mines and terrorized the town of Panguna and its environs. The rebels are seeking higher royalties from the mine's joint owners, an Australian company and the government of Papua New Guinea, an island nation in the southwest Pacific...
...violence could worsen since the rebel gang, headed by former mine surveyor Francis Ona, has grown increasingly radical in its aims. In April the group called for the secession of the North Solomons province, of which Bougainville forms the major part. Meanwhile, the economy of P.N.G., which draws 20% of its domestic revenues from the mine, is hemorrhaging. The government is offering a $200,000 reward for Ona and seven others, dead or alive...