The World - News from Aug. 15, 1988

Costa Rican National Guardsmen have killed one Nicaraguan rebel and arrested two others in a clash on Costa Rican territory, a Security Ministry spokesman said. Carlos Jimenez said that a group of 40 guardsmen clashed with about 30 Contras on Saturday about a mile south of the San Juan River on Costa Rica’s border with Nicaragua. There were no casualties on the Costa Rican side, he added. The Costa Rican government, which does not have a standing army, forbids the Contras from basing troops in Costa Rica, in line with the country’s neutral stand in Central American conflicts.