The World - News from April 21, 1988
The family of American Benjamin Linder, who was slain by rebels in Nicaragua last year, filed a $50-million wrongful death suit in Miami against Contra leaders. The suit alleges that Linder, a 27-year-old volunteer from Portland, Ore., who was working on a hydroelectric project for the Nicaraguan government, was tortured, then shot dead at point-blank range as he lay wounded after a rebel ambush on April 28, 1987. Named as defendants are the Nicaraguan Resistance, the rebel umbrella group; Contra directors Adolfo Calero and Aristides Sanchez; Col. Enrique Bermudez, the rebels’ chief military commander, and Indalecio Rodriguez Alaniz, another Contra leader.
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