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Contras inside Nicaragua admit they have been using the cease-fire zones for resupply operations. Ironically, as even some of the rebels' strongest supporters reluctantly conclude the contra effort is doomed -- an opinion seemingly shared by many of the civilian contra leaders -- the estimated 12,000 rebel soldiers are finally beginning to look like a fighting force. Armed with U.S. Redeye missiles, the contras claim to have shot down more than 20 Sandinista helicopters this year, and are now stepping up attacks in the northern provinces. A sympathetic expatriate community in Miami still believes the contras could...
...disappeared or died at the hands of the military, so why risk trouble? In Chalatenango province, near the border with Honduras, the locals stay away from the rutted dirt paths that wind through the green hills. Unwary travelers have lost feet or legs to land mines planted by rebel troops of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front...
Brazilian farmers readily embraced such Rebel contributions as the kerosene lamp and the steel-blade plow, a godsend to a country that hadn't got past the simple hoe. The Southern missionaries whom the settlers hired as teachers also had a lasting impact. The educational tradition they began is one reason that Americana has only a 14% illiteracy rate in a country where one-fourth of the population cannot read or write...
...Costa Rica, says the U.S. intelligence community once counted him among its most valuable assets along Nicaragua's southern border. When Congress was constraining the Reagan Administration from supporting the contras' war against Nicaragua's Sandinista regime, Hull was a leader of the network that helped sustain the rebels' "southern front." His airstrips were used by planes that supplied U.S. weapons, food and clothes to the contras, his ranch house was the site of delicate negotiations among contra factions, and he was a conduit for money used to support rebel activities. Directly across the San Carlos River from Hull...
Hull, never summoned to appear before the Iran-contra committees, says he did talk to Walsh's investigators under a grant of limited immunity. Hull told them that in 1984 and 1985 he received $10,000 a month from Contra Leader Adolfo Calero to finance rebel support activities. Though he insists he answered the independent counsel's questions honestly, Hull is concerned that Walsh might try to indict him for perjury...