propaganda barrage style intervention into that country.
tina.
According to the Post, ine laea is to alsrupt lne economy by attacking powel •tallls. bridges and similar inThis is the background the extra-ordinary publicity effort by the Reagan administration to convince world opinion of the charge that in e Nicaraguans are amassing a force to invade the rest of THE UNITED STATES has launched a major against revolutionary Nicaragua as a cover for a planned commandoThe Washington Post has now confirmed that last November President Reagan authorised a $19m (£10.5m) CIA plan to establish a 500 strong force to operate from inside Honduras. A further 1000 men are being trained in Argenscenes reminiscenl of the Cuban missile crisis, the press were called lo d CIA Have legally acquired interpreted for them. photographs purportedly revealed big build up by But even the most basic 'facts' clashed.
The analysis presented by John Hughes tion have been opened and who did the same job in Hughies' deduction Ine noton abus. dinistas regular army.
'Cuban-style' capable of housing TaLKS 500-700 people.
Guardian quipped:
suggested that either gross overcrowaing or between 45,000 people without a bed'. aerial The Sandinistas These also chased we called all of 60 armoured personmilitary HIC Carics capacity of these each vehicle would have to make 60 trips to take one was eighth of their forces into a neighbouring country!
the sannow had 70,000 and men in ine These were accommodated barAs the "This there 35.000 and were Given the Callis year old Rolande Jose Women play an active part in the militias which are being rapidly expanded to meet US threat statement that he had been