The World - News from Nov. 17, 1986

Nicaragua’s justice minister brushed aside speculation that American Eugene Hasenfus, sentenced Saturday to 30 years in prison for flying weapons to U.S.-backed rebels, would be pardoned. “I don’t see any possibility of a pardon,” Rodrigo Reyes was quoted as saying in the pro-government newspaper Nuevo Diario. “If he is pardoned, this would be rejected by the population.” But Vice President Sergio Ramirez, visiting Atlanta to attend services at the church of the Rev. Joseph Lowery, a civil rights leader, told reporters that the door is not closed, that “there are open possibilities.” He added, “What we want is not to have another Hasenfus case in Nicaragua.”