The World - News from April 26, 1987

Opposition leader Domingo Laino, exiled four years ago by the government of President Alfredo Stroessner, returned to Paraguay without incident. Laino, a 51-year-old economist, was expelled in December, 1982, for writing a book critical of former Nicaraguan leader Anastasio Somoza, a friend of Stroessner’s who was assassinated in Asuncion in 1980. “I hope my presence here serves to unite all Paraguayans,” Laino told a crowd of about 1,000 supporters on his arrival at Asuncion International Airport. There was no reaction from the government on Laino’s return, which comes after the lifting April 8 of state of siege powers in the capital that had been in effect for 33 years.