The World - News from May 30, 1985
U.S. spy planes are flying over strategic Nicaraguan sites in an attempt to determine whether the government has acquired advanced Soviet warplanes, a Nicaraguan army officer charged. “Two American planes, a U-2 and an RC-135 . . , have been surveilling the Monotombo geothermic power plant and the Punta Huete airport,” the Nicaraguan officer said. U.S. officials maintain that the 12,000-foot-long runways being built at Punta Huete are intended to receive advanced Soviet warplanes.
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