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...vital Central American ally will remain untroubled. At any given time, from 1,200 to 5,000 U.S. combat troops are on rotation in Honduras. Over the past three years, the two countries have conducted extensive joint military exercises aimed at deterring aggression by Nicaragua's Marxist-oriented Sandinista government. Honduras also serves as a base for 5,000 to 10,000 U.S.-backed anti-Sandinista Nicaraguan contra rebels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honduras: Topsy-Turvy | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...there was little progress on other bilateral issues. Reagan reiterated his concern over cross-border drug trafficking and his frustration with Mexico's backing of anti-U.S. resolutions at the United Nations and its support for Nicaragua's lefist Sandinista regime. De la Madrid reminded Reagan that the U.S. and Mexico must sometimes take separate paths. Said he: "Our political and economic reality cannot be identical." THE PHILIPPINES No More Mrs. Nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Notes: Jan. 13, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...when members of Witness for Peace, a group established in North Carolina, set sail from the Nicaraguan town of San Carlos, about 130 miles southeast of the capital, Managua. The group's aim: to travel by boat along the San Juan River, which is hotly contested by contra and Sandinista forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Witnesses and Revelations | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Even as Borge spoke, some 14,000 contras were continuing their three-week-old offensive inside Nicaragua. Near the town of Cuapa, 100 miles east of Managua, the contras claimed to have killed 51 Sandinista soldiers. Fighting was said to be extending farther south, toward the cattle-raising center of Boaco. The Sandinistas claimed that about 150 contras had been killed and 40 captured in the past month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Witnesses and Revelations | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...embassy in Managua was the envy of many Nicaraguans. The 200-odd nationals employed by the U.S. as guards, drivers, administrators and accountants earn at least twice as much as most of their countrymen. Last week those jobs suddenly seemed less appealing. Since Nov. 2, the leftist Sandinista government has summoned at least 17 embassy employees for interrogation at a nearby security compound. Some reported afterward that they were forcibly detained for up to 13 hours by security agents who subjected them to abusive and threatening treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Notes: Nov. 25, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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