Thursday, March 27, 1986
Central America
University Daily Kansan
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U.S. helps Honduras fight Sandinistas
United Press International
WASHINGTON — U.S.-piloted helicopters yesterday airlifted Honduran troops to battles between anti-Sandinista rebels and a Nicaraguan government invasion force, U.S. officials said.
White House spokesman Larry Speaks said an undisclosed number of Nicaraguan troops remained in Honduras after crossing the border as many as 300 are trapped inside the country.
He also reported significant movement toward the common border by more Sandinista troops, as well as fire from artillery, BM-21 multiple rocket launchers and Soviet-made MI-8 guns into Honduras.
"There are a number of Sandinista units at the border," Speakes said. "Others are en route to the border."
The situation has not stabilized. It is premature to draw any conclusion that the
military situation in the region is over."
In Managua, the Nicaraguan government said the United States was trying to create an artificial conflict between Honduras and Nicaragua to justify $100 million in aid to the rebels, or contras, being considered in Congress.
Officials in Honduras said President Jose Azcona Hoyo, also chief of the armed forces, had left for a five-day Caribbean vacation. A government spokesman, although confirming the incursion took place after initially denying it, said it was not a large-scale invasion.
One U.S. official attributed the earlier denials to the Hondurans' unease about the U.S. military presence there and about acknowledging their territory was used by the contras.
To add credibility to U.S. charges of Sandinista aggression, the White House released a letter, received Tuesday, in which Azona told President Reagan that the Nicaraguan had
"The area invaded by Sandinista forces is very inaccessible, making it virtually impossible for the Honduran armed forces to deploy to the region quickly," Azcona said.
entered eastern Honduras in flagrant abuse of Honduran sovereignty. He appealed for U.S. military assistance.
“Our helicopters are not in any way being exposed to the imminent conflict.” Speakers said.
U. S. officials expected 50 to 60 sorties throughout the day.
Speakes said U.S. Chinook and Huey helicopters, piloted by some of the 2,800 U.S. troops stationed in Honduras, began ferrying Honduran troops to the area of the fighting as part of the emergency military assistance ordered by Reagan.
used to the imminent conflict." Speakes said, Pentagon spokesman Robert Sims said the Honduran troops were flown to a destination removed from the fighting. Speakes stressed that U.S. crews being kept some miles from the actual fighting.
A Pentagon source said 12 Hues and six Chinooks — part of the U.S.Honduran exercises conducted almost continuously over the last three years — were used in the airlift.
U. S. officials said the Sandinistas crossed the border in four separate assaults Saturday and drove up to 13 miles into Honduras in pursuit of contra training and medical outposts. It was the largest such invasion since 1982, the officials said.
Speakes said other Nicaraguan forces had occupied the area of San Andres de Bocay, farther to the east.
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Nicaragua seeks peace aid
United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The Sandinista government said yesterday that the United States tried to create an artificial conflict between Honduras and Nicaragua and asked for a peacekeeping force to monitor the border.
"If Honduras wants peace, surely they will not oppose the creation of a supervisory commission," said Deputy Foreign Minister Jose Leon Talavera in statements published yesterday.
Nicaragua asked the four countries of the Contadora peace-seeking group — Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Panama — and its support group — Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Uruguay — to form and oversee the border patrol.
The commission would be similar to a task force established last month
by Nicaragua and Costa Rica, also under Contadora auspices, to prevent border incidents between the two countries.
The formation of the Nicaragua-Costa Rica task force was hailed as an important step in improving relations between the two countries, which had been strained by the presence of anti-Nicaraguan rebels, or contras, in northern Costa Rica.
The Nicaraguans say contrasts have frequently tried to draw Managua's troops over the border into Honduras to provoke an international incident.
Army Chief of Staff Joaquín Cuadra, in a news conference late Thursday at the House chimes the 1500 Nicaraguan soldiers into Honduras during the weekend.
But he acknowledged Nicagarapu artillery fire might have fallen on the Honduran side as Sandistas pursued the hundreds of contras who infiltrated northern Nicaragua over the last two weeks.
Cuadra said the Reagan administration was trying to create an artificial conflict between Nicaragua and Honduras to justify its request for $100 million in contra aid.
Diplomats, meanwhile, said the truth about what happened on the border probably lay somewhere between White House claims and Nicaraguan denials.
"If you say some Sandinistas crossed the border, I can buy it," a European diplomat said. "But to speak of an invasion is absurd. There was something, but not on the scale being talked about."
Numerous border crossings, both by the Nicaraguaans into Honduras and the Hondurans into Nicaragua, have been reported in the past.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — U.S. military helicopters with U.S. crews ferried Honduran soldiers to a remote border area yesterday where up to 1,500 Sandinista troops were reported trying to fight their way back to Nicaragua.
The Associated Press
The salient is a triangular-shaped area of Honduras that juts into Nicaragua along the irregular frontier between the two countries. It has long been the site of an important camp of contras, who fight the Sandinista government from bases in southern Honduras.
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U. S. officials here said 14 helicopters from Palmerola air base were carrying infantry and artillery units to the Las Vegas salient about 120 miles east of the capital.
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Honduran military sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said 1,500 Sandinistas crossed the frontier Saturday in pursuit of rebels and were trapped inside Honduras by contrains who cut off their retreat.
U. S. officials said about 100 Sandinistas and 80 contras had been killed in four days of fighting.
Other sources put the number of Nicaraguan government troops at nearer 800 and said most probably would slip through the net because it was difficult to block escape through the mountainous jungle terrain.
Accounts of fighting could not be verified independently. Honduran military sources said soldiers were required to keep journalists out of the area.
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