The World : Linder’s Death Protested

Nicaraguan soldiers deactivated two land mines along the path of about 70 U.S. citizens as they marched to the site where an American engineer was killed in a northern war zone, the government newspaper Barricada said. The march, to protest U.S. policy toward Nicaragua and the death of Benjamin E. Linder, an American engineer killed April 28 in a contra attack, ended Sunday in San Jose de Bocay, the paper said. “A military squadron discovered two mines along the marchers’ route a few kilometers outside of El Cedro, which has been attacked three times by the rebels,” the newspaper said. The Americans had rejected a military escort offered by the government, but an army squadron “voluntarily went ahead of the march,” one participant said.