FULL TEXT: NICARAGUA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000606660001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 29, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO TV REPORTS,
470 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 - 656-4068
MacNeil/Lehrer Report
STAnON W E T A- T V
PBS Network
DATE March 29, 1983 7:30 PM CiY Washington, DC
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Full Text: Nicaragua
ROBERT MacNEIL: The fighting in Nicaragua -- is it
counter-revolution? Civil war? Or a clandestine plot by the
United States?
[Up theme music].
Good evening.
The United Nations Security Council held its fifth day
of debate on the fighting in Nicaragua today, leaving no one
much wiser about what's really going on. Nicaragua's govern-
ment continued to charge that the United States is backing the
rebel attacks launched from bases in neighboring Honduras.
Honduras denies that, but says Nicaragua is using Honduran
territory to smuggle arms to rebels in El Salvador.
The Nicaraguans claim that the Reagan Administration
is plotting to destabilize and overthrow there left-wing
Sandinista government. U.S. spokesmen have not commented
directly on this, but say the Nicaraguans are trying to
cover-up the unpopularity of their own regime.
Behind all this welter of complicated charges, there
is fighting between Nicaragau's 22,000-man army and the rebel
force estimated to number anywhere from 1,500 to 5,000 strong.
And, in the last week, that fighting has intensified, prompting
Nicaragua to appeal to the Security Council.
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