Miami Herald (subscription), FL
Trying to allay U.S. concerns that its shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles could wind up in terrorist hands, Nicaragua has agreed to provide American officials with exceptionally detailed information about them, a State Department official has said.
The information will include the number of missiles at different Nicaraguan army storage sites and the names of the supervising officers, Rose Likins, acting assistant secretary for political-military affairs, told The Herald on Friday.
Likins, who returned the previous day from a visit to Nicaragua, said she also obtained a commitment from the Nicaraguan government, the army and some Congress members to devise a way to revoke a recently adopted law that stopped the destruction of the country's 1,000 remaining SAM-7 missiles.
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