The World - News from Feb. 13, 1987
About 300 U.S. Army airborne troops parachuted into central Honduras, landing about 75 miles from the Nicaraguan border, to begin a high-readiness alert exercise. The paratroopers are part of a 750-member task force of the 82nd Airborne Division from Ft. Bragg, N.C., beginning two weeks of training that the Pentagon says will help show U.S. military capability to quickly challenge Soviet, Cuban or Nicaraguan threats in Central America. The exercise was witnessed by a special pool of reporters secretly convened by the Pentagon and flown to Honduras.
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