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Reported by Barry Hillenbrand/Tripoli and Roberto Suro/ Beirut...
...choice of Honduras was yet another sign of that country's growing role in the Reagan Administration's Central American strategy. Since 1982, the government of President Roberto Suazo Córdova, 56, has allowed American-backed anti-Sandinista rebels to use Honduras as a staging ground for raids into Nicaragua. The U.S. has built new concrete runways capable of landing C-130 military transport planes and has installed a radar station on Tiger Island in the Gulf of Fonseca, while 6,000 Honduran soldiers, roughly half the nation's army, are being taught American field tactics...
Diplomats are now convinced that the death squads include army officers and aides close to Roberto d'Aubuisson, president of the Constituent Assembly and head of the right-wing ARENA Party. U.S. Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering has warned that continued U.S. economic and military aid would depend on evidence that the government was making an effort to "deal with [the terrorism] directly." During a visit to El Salvador last week, Under Secretary of Defense Fred Ikle charged that the death squads actually "serve the Communist cause...
...gentlemanly fight last week with Roberto Duran, undisputed Middleweight Champion of the World Marvin Hagler was both an evident winner and an obvious loser, perversely confirming the curious viewpoint of the Las Vegas judge who scored six of the 15 rounds for nobody. The fight was not as close as the scores indicated (on two of three cards, Duran could have taken the decision in the last round), but it was close enough to reprieve Duran as a personification of shame and to reduce Hagler as a figure of terror...
...whom fell apart when he hit them, least of all Sugar Ray Leonard. Pulling something unknowable out of himself, Duran defeated Leonard in 1980, but leaving it there five months later, he quit against Leonard in disgrace. "No más" became the most notorious phrase in any language. Roberto lost two subsequent fights, but then knocked out former Welterweight Champion Pipino Cuevas to get a chance at Davey Moore's junior middleweight title. When he stopped Moore in June, Duran had come back virtually to Leonard, actually to Hagler...