Word: tegucigalpa
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...rugged border between Marxist Nicaragua and U.S. ally Honduras. The oppressive quiet of early afternoon was broken by a buzz, quickly swelling into a roar. Out of a cloud of dust lumbered heavy tanks and armored personnel carriers, following an obvious invasion route north toward the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, some 80 miles away...
...President threatened to declare a state of siege, and the national police's "Cobra" antiriot unit took up positions around the National Assembly and the Supreme Court in the capital of Tegucigalpa. Was the army about to take control again in Honduras, a U.S. ally that has been under a military dictatorship for all but three of the past 20 years? It was not, but President Roberto Suazo Cordova, who ordered the deployment of his security forces last week, nonetheless spoke of a "technical coup"--one carried out not by the army but by the legislature...
...November. After five new Justices were sworn in by a defiant Assembly, Suazo Cordova reportedly issued arrest orders for all of them; authorities detained Ramon Valladares Soto, who had been appointed Chief Justice, and charged him with treason. At week's end a Western observer described the situation in Tegucigalpa as "very fragile...
...espionage by one of its counterintelligence officers-was elated by the Honduran coup busting. "We want to make it clear that the full resources of the FBI will be devoted to preventing terrorist acts like those disclosed today," said Director William Webster. At his family farm 50 miles outside Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, President Suazo was being guarded by 800 Honduran soldiers...
...contra leader now in exile in Miami, Edgar Chamorro, told TIME that the document is based on notes given him a year ago by a "gringo" who arrived as a CIA operative at rebel headquarters in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He was described by Chamorro as an Irishman who fought for the U.S. in the Korean War and admired the "psychological operations" of the Irish Republican Army. Chamorro printed up 2,000 copies of the manual and handed out 200 of them to his troops, but then he had second thoughts. He revised the rest by censoring out references to "criminals...