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According to the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa, Schwab and two U.S. Army engineers were on a routine 170-mile flight from San Lorenzo to Aguacate. Schwab was unable to maintain his course 25 miles inside Honduras' southern border with Nicaragua, possibly because of 30-knot winds, the embassy said. As a result, the pilot was forced to land on a rutted dirt road near the frontier. When Schwab and his passengers got out of the aircraft, they came under intense fire from Sandinista troops. The two engineers escaped unhurt...
...gaily colored Air Florida 737 jet from Miami had barely taxied to a halt at the Tegucigalpa airport when a column of trucks loaded with Honduran policemen careered across the runway to head it off. As police surrounded the aircraft, troops slithered down ropes from helicopters hovering overhead and flung themselves on the ground with rifles ready. The cause of their concern: the arrival of 40 clergywomen, the first planeload of 140 American and Canadian nuns and lay workers headed for a four-day prayerful protest against U.S. policy in Central America. The Honduran government barred the other 100 even...
...Central America. That prospect troubles some Hondurans. "In the event of a war, the U.S. will supply the money and the guns, but we will supply the dead and injured," says a businessman in Comayagua. Most Hondurans, however, welcome the U.S. influx. Says an influential banker in Tegucigalpa: "There is nothing temporary about the American presence in Honduras. We need the U.S. Army. If we need defending from any outside threat, the U.S. will defend us. We want the American troops here...
Reported by Dean Brelis/ Tegucigalpa and Bruce W. Nelan with Weinberger
That presence in Honduras already includes 57 U.S. Air Force technicians who man a radar station on a mountaintop 23 miles southeast of Tegucigalpa. In operation only since last month, it was ostensibly erected to monitor some 55 U.S. military support flights in and out of Honduras each month. In fact, the unit's radar can watch air traffic above all of Nicaragua and El Salvador...