The World - News from July 15, 1985
Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega said the leftist government has distributed 200,000 rifles to civilian militias in renewed fear of a U.S. invasion. Ortega said 165,000 of the weapons are Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifles and that the Sandinista army is training special brigades in anti-tank and anti-helicopter warfare tactics.
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