The World : 2 Americans Called Spies

Nicaragua accused two U.S. military officers attached to the U.S. Embassy of espionage after they were found in a restricted area. A Foreign Ministry statement said the embassy’s defense attache, Col. Alden Cunningham, and Capt. Barbara Sims were “intercepted” Tuesday near the town of Siuna, 140 miles northeast of Managua. The area is a war zone in the fighting against U.S.-supported rebels, the leftist government said, and the two Americans lacked authorization to be there. An embassy spokeswoman said only that embassy personnel frequently “travel through the country to get to know it.”