The World - News from Jan. 6, 1986
Nicaragua’s Sandinista government rejected Colombian charges that it supplied weapons used by leftist Colombian guerrillas in a November assault on the Palace of Justice in Bogota that killed more than 100 people. Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel D’Escoto denied the charge in a letter to Augusto Ramirez Ocampo, Colombia’s foreign minister. The Colombian government had demanded an explanation as to how rifles belonging to the leftist Sandinista regime, traced by serial numbers, ended up in the hands of the rebels.
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