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...organizations that monitor human-rights abuses issued reports last week that will make it more difficult for the Administration to win over Congress. Americas Watch, a private nonpartisan group that monitors human-rights abuses in the hemisphere, contended that the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the largest rebel group, employs "the deliberate use of terror." The Washington Office on Latin America, a coalition of religious and academic groups, issued a report citing at least 28 murders, rapes, assaults and instances of torture committed by the contras...
...tennis court when three men in tennis clothes approached. One pulled out a pistol and shot Cienfuegos in the head, killing him instantly. Before fleeing, the killers draped their victim's body with the red-and-yellow flag of the Popular Liberation Forces (F.P.L.), a faction of the rebel Farabundo Marti Popular Liberation Front...
...Sandinistas have fought back, especially against the F.D.N., by sending troops to overwhelm rebel strongholds. When the opportunity for an ambush arises, the government dispatches its version of the Green Berets: one of several elite battalions about 600 strong trained in antiguerrilla warfare by North Korean and Vietnamese military advisers in 1983. The Sandinistas have a big edge in modern equipment, like Soviet AK-47 rifles and T-55 tanks. The rebels are nervously waiting for the Sandinistas to deploy their new Hind-D helicopters, which can fly 200 m.p.h. and carry air-to-surface missiles...
...intent of the book is clear throughout it charts the submergence of the long cherished communist goal of world revolution into the much of Soviet internal affairs under Stalin According to Carr, the original plan for the defense of a fledgling Spanish socialist government against the rebel Fascists and the advancement of the communist movement there was scrapped in the name of political expediency. As Carr puts it in his conclusion, the "united front," which joined Spanish socialists and communists under Moscow's guidance, gave was to a "popular front," with which the Spanish left was ordered to embrace...
...million for Peru to help it fend off guerrilla insurgents. Spain, Portugal, Turkey and the Philippines, which are host to U.S. bases, get a high priority for military aid; assistance to the Philippines will jump from $45 million to a proposed $100 million to help it fight a growing rebel movement...