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About 200 University of Massachusetts students Thursday engaged in a shouting match during a rally at the Amherst campus to support an American captured when Sandinista troops shot down a contra supply plane in Nicaragua, the Associated Press reported...
Nicaraguan officials have claimed the supply operation was part of a CIA effort to help the Contras, who have been fighting for four years to overthrow the leftist Sandinista government...
Administration leaks mentioned three of Nicaragua's neighbors -- Honduras, Panama and El Salvador -- as possible training sites and sanctuaries. But as soon as the speculations surfaced, it became clear that opposition to some of the Administration's anti-Sandinista schemes came not just from Congress but also from Honduras, Panama and El Salvador...
Meanwhile, U.S. military planners began going through the motions of considering other possible training sites. Fort Benning, Ga., was mentioned. So was, to the horror of some officials at State, politically volatile Puerto Rico. But most experts suspected that in the end, as part of a "covert" anti-Sandinista campaign that has been wide open all along, Honduras would agree to maintain the "covert" contra training camps while officially denying their existence. One Honduran official seemed resigned to as much when he likened dealing with the U.S. to "being in bed with an elephant: whatever movement there is, no matter...