The World - News from Aug. 18, 1985
Sandinista troops, using heavy artillery and air power, have killed or wounded 100 rebels of an insurgent force poised to attack a strategic town along the Pan American Highway, the Nicaraguan Defense Ministry reported. A statement said that counterinsurgency and militia units intercepted about 1,000 of the guerrillas--whom it did not further identify--as they approached Sebaco, 60 miles north of Managua. The statement made no mention of government casualties.
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