The World - News from May 13, 1985
A one-time guerrilla leader who accepted a Salvadoran government amnesty and surrendered last month claimed that the insurgents receive more than 70% of their arms from Nicaragua. “We need from 20,000 to 30,000 rounds of ammunition and some 5,000 sticks of TNT every month,” Cmdr. Napoleon Romero said at a press conference in San Salvador. “All of that comes from Nicaragua.”
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