Arizona Daily Sun, AZ
President Enrique Bolanos told U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld Friday that Nicaragua would completely eliminate a stockpile of hundreds of surface-to-air missiles with no expectation of compensation from the United States.
Bolanos said the anti-aircraft missiles would be destroyed within a year-and-a-half.
Nicaragua had 2,000 SA-7 missiles, which are portable weapons of Soviet design, left over from the Latin American country's days as a client of the Soviet Union. U.S. officials sought their destruction, fearing they could make their way into terrorist hands for use against airliners or military aircraft.
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