The World - News from May 18, 1986

U.S.-backed Nicaraguan guerrillas kidnaped eight West Germans working on housing construction projects in northern Nicaragua, radio reports said. The Nicaraguan government radio said the rebels, called contras, are believed to have taken the captives toward Honduras, where the guerrillas maintain bases. It was the third time that West Germans working to support the leftist Sandinista government in Managua have been kidnaped by the contras.