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...This region is a permanent scene of combat between rebel forces and the army of the Nicaraguan government," the statement said...
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras--An American engineer killed in northern Nicaragua was caught in a firefight between rebel fighters and Sandinista militia, the largest U.S.-supported Contra force said yesterday...
...once dotted with Sumo Indian villages. Until the early 1980s the Sumos, surrounded by dense tropical forest, farmed and fished as they had for centuries. The Indians are gone now, forcibly moved to Sandinista resettlement camps, and the once sleepy river teems with guerrillas of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force. Rebel dugout canoes ply the Bocay deep into Nicaragua's Jinotega province, carrying food and ammunition to contras in the interior...
...guerrillas have few illusions about maintaining supply lines without U.S. help, and they are eager to impress listeners with their needs. "We know what has been said about private aid to the contras," said a rebel calling himself Renato, who heads a 500-man unit that helps guard the supply line. "But when the American Government was not providing assistance, we suffered. People naturally saw us as losing...
...attacking. Now they are giving up territory, and we are the ones on the offensive." Guerrillas say they have downed five Sandinista battle helicopters in the past two months with Soviet-made SA-7 missiles bought with U.S. aid, a claim the Sandinistas deny. One rebel said contra forces in the area have 40 of the Soviet-made antiaircraft weapons and expect delivery of 200 more...