The World - News from June 5, 1988

Nicaragua announced that it has shut down another radio newscast for broadcasting “false information” in violation of communications laws. The Interior Ministry said the privately owned Radio Corporation’s “Ten on the Dot” news program was ordered closed for eight days for broadcasting an item from an international news agency that the ministry said was false. The newscast reported that the leftist Sandinista government “admitted it had assaulted” Jorge Salazar, a leader of an anti-government business group, and Moises Mondragon, a rebel who had sought government amnesty. Both men had been slain, Salazar in 1980 and Mondragon last year.