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After Pan Am turned it in for a newer plane last November, No. 19921 was leased to a Honduran airline, SAHSA, for about $130,000 a month. SAHSA shares the plane with another Honduran carrier, TAN. Based these days in the capital city of Tegucigalpa, the aging airliner, a veteran of approximately 65,000 flights, carries about 1,000 passengers a day on several routes, north to Miami and Guatemala, and south to El Salvador and Panama. During 20 years of service, No. 19921 has outlived two of its airlines: PSA and PWA both merged into other companies...
HONDURAS provides a fine counterpoint to this picture of chaos and decay. Honduras has long been our faithful pawn in Central America and thrives on our support. But last month, 2000 rioters took over the streets of the capital, Tegucigalpa, and burnt two U.S. embassy buildings to protest the United States' illegal extradition of noted drug trafficker, Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros. The riots were not in support of Matta, but in protest of the extradition of this Honduran citizen for crimes committed abroad, a direct violation of the Honduran Constitution...
...same might be said of U.S. policy in Honduras. Cleanup crews in Tegucigalpa continue to wash soot off the U.S. embassy annex, attacked two weeks ago by gringophobic students protesting the seizure and extradition to the U.S. of accused Drug Kingpin Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros. At least two Hondurans died in the riots; damage estimates ranged up to $6 million, and the U.S. indicated that it expects reparations. The Reagan Administration insisted that the attack was orchestrated by drug traffickers, including a military faction sympathetic to Matta...
...give the lie to its own claims. Just last month the Hondurans were compelled by Washington to request assistance to halt a Sandinista cross-border attack aimed at the contra camps, then watched dismally as 3,200 U.S. troops rushed into the country. Says a Western diplomat in Tegucigalpa: "Honduras has always been a means...
...82nd Airborne in Honduras in response to the Nicaraguan invasion highlights these problems. At hearings before the Senate last week, Secretary of State George Shultz said, "It's important that people know the United States will fight." The Administration properly used military force in Honduras to bolster Tegucigalpa's morale and to deter further Nicaraguan incursions across the border. In essence, we stuck out the American chin and dared the Sandinistas to hit us--and it worked, as they withdrew this week without destroying the main contra supply cache...