Nicaraguan guerillas have, for the last week or ao, beon fighting tho allied government forces of the Nicaraguan and Honduras dictatorial regimes in a border arsa between the two countries, the Costa,Rican paper La Hora reported 6th September, Battles took place in the Jonepete area, the paper said, The Nicaraguan air force wantonly bombed’ places where the @uerillas have baon active, The papor added that the Nicaraguan and Hondums governments had lost control of the situation,
Another Costa Rican paper, La Nacion, reportod that battles have recently taken place betwoon the guerillas end the national guard of tho Somezea dictatorial regime resulting in the twenty of the national guard being killed and some captured The clashes occured in the forsst of Las Sogovias of Northern Nicaragua where moro than 3,000 guerillas have long been active. The Nicaraguan guerillas also issued a statement rocently docloring that thoy would fight for the expropriation of foreign enterprises, for tho raalisation of radical agrarian reform and for the ovorthrow of the Somoza rogime, Tho paper said tho Nicaraguan government had asked for aid from the U.S, in fighting the guerillas,