The World - News from Oct. 9, 1985
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Brooklyn Rivera, coordinator of the Misurasata Indian rebel group fighting Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista government, charged that a U.S.-backed guerrilla organization has threatened to attack his forces if they don’t submit to its leadership. At a news conference in Washington, Rivera said that units of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force “have seized and intimidated community leaders, demanding that they either support the FDN or be killed.” A spokesman for the contras, as the guerrillas are known, denied the charges.
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