Air attack launched on | Socialist Action 1983

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One of the two planes airtart tire nd crashed aircratt crashed killing both the pilot and co-pilot, later identified as Nicaraguan exiles.

DUlll the air raid and the sabotage of the oil installation were claimed by tne Democratic Kevolltionary Front Honduras.

Last Friday jet fighters (US-made T-38s) rockets at oil storage tanks al lic . 50 miles West of Managua Reports differed as to the damage done, some saying the rockets landed storage tanks were damaged.

Ominously, the Nicaraguan foreign minister Miguel D'Escoto FOR two days running last week rebel plans based in Honduras launched air attacks against Nicaragua. On Thursday two light planes attacked the airport at Managua, and machine gunned and rocketed an area of the city. On the same day, contras blew up Nicaragua's only dock for unloading crude oil at indicated on Friday that an air and sea battle was taking place between Nicaraguan nOnduran forces in the Laguna duran Nicaraguan Castl This escalation of the Yes, according to the InterHerald Tribune after CIA officials had exDressed disappointment that the rebels had not made significant military inroads in Nicaragua Clearly the launching of air attacks from Honduran territory is an act of Wal notes The CIA has decided to step up and the situation is drifting women IT'S getting impossible these days read newspaper (present company excepted) or watch the news on l'l without screaming loudly. The seem to be on a right wing rampage even more than usual.

Here is an example of objective reporting from the illustrious Daily Express (take note especially of the last four words):

'A group of normally peaceful citizens decided to take the law into their own hands late last night with a hit-and-run raid on the Greenham Com-