The World - News from Aug. 10, 1989
Three of nine top Contra military officers, including the rebel chief of staff, were granted U.S. political asylum, immigration official Perry Rivkind said in Miami. The officers won State Department approval for asylum two days after five Central American presidents agreed on a plan to demobilize the anti-Sandinista forces. Israel Galeano, the rebel chief of staff known as Comandante Franklin, led the list of officers filing asylum claims. Francisco (Johnny) Delgadillo, a Contra political adviser also granted asylum, conceded that the action could be misinterpreted by rebel troops holed up in camps on the Honduran border.
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