Rebels 'pushed over Honduran border’
NZPA-Reuter . Managua Most of the 1200 RightWing rebels who invaded Nicaragua have been pushed back over the Honduran border, said Nicaraguan military sources yesterday. Both sides reported inflicting heavy casualties on the other. The Defence Ministry in Managua said that the rebels had suffered heavy losses and the junta leader, Daniel Ortega, said that Nicaragua had recovered full control over the border
mountain ' range in the Nueva Segovia Province. In Tegucigalpa, the rebels said that they had killed 72 soldiers, 25 of them in an, ambush on an Army truck, and downed two Nicaraguan Air Force planes since the invasion, earlier this week. They said that they had also captured many Sovietmade rifles in the provinces of Nueva Segovia and Jinotega. A Nicaraguan defence spokesman admitted that bands of 30 to 40 men were continuing to make brief raids near the southern
border from 12 bases in Costa Rica, but denied reports that the invaders were in control of border areas. In Costa Rica, the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance said that it had launched two attacks across Nicaragua’s southern border, and was fighting to seize a small island on a lake. In San Jose it has been suggested that the Organisation of American States could be asked to set up a peace-keeping force to watch its border with Nicaragua.
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