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Show Sunday. December THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 11. 1983 - Page 75 Teenagers Guarding Plantations Nicaragua Mobilises for Coffee Harvest By JOHN LANTTGUA SAN JUAN DE RIO COCO, Ronald GuNicaragua (UPI) tierrez, 14, and about 50 other teenagers guarding the state coffee plantation saw lights on the mountainside one night and opened fire with their Soviet-mad- e automatic rifles. "We thought they were the Contra," he said, using the slang name for the U.S. funded guerrillas. Officials of the ruling Sandi-nist- a Front are expecting the 8,000 to 10,000 rebels based in nearby Honduras to try to ruin the coffee harvest and cripple the country's economy when the picking begins in earnest later this month. - -- February. "That is if we live lll'HIIlllIMimi.llllliii SSSSSSBH1111 Jr. Ronald Sebastian Gutierrez, I iiH that long," : 3L lm MWMMMIIMIIMIMMII ; They say the rebels have killed some 1,000 Nicaraguans, both military and civilians, this year. There is good reason to fear for the coffee harvest. Last year it brought Nicaragua about $150 million, making it the country's largest cash crop. Gutierrez and the other high school students from the city of Esteli have been on the remote coffee plantation called El Cap men, near the town of San Juan de Rio Coco, since Nov. 10. They are to remain on the plantation, located in the northern mountains 120 miles from Managua, until the coffee harvest is completed, probably in ljfc' &K-"""r- Maria Luisa Molina, 17, J f picks coffee with her rifle handy. said Noel Alfaro, 19, drawing laughter from the other teenagers. The volunteers range in age from 13 to 20. They carry assault rifles when picking coffee and doing guard duty, a task each performs for three hours a day. Leonides Acuna, 51, said he and other militiamen who live on the land year round have suffered eight rebel attacks in three years. On May 30, 1982, he said, three militiamen died in a rebel assault. Acuna, armed with a Kalashni-ko- v and wearing the brown shirt of the militia, pointed to a plume of smoke rising from a green mountainside Salvadoreans Say Rebels Have Split Movement By ANTHONY R. HARRUP United Press International The Salvadoran army Friday branded the emergence of a new rebel group as a "complete decomposition" of the leftist movement, and rebels blasted President Reagan as a criminal "drunk on power" for backing the Salvadoran regime. . The Armed Forces Press Committee issued a communique analyzing the formation of the Revolutionary Labor Movement, or MOR, a new guerrilla group that was announced Tuesday. "The birth of the leftist group ... reaffirms the thesis of the com- of the Eilete decomposition Forces (FPL) into two sectors," the army communique said. of the FPL is "The break-u- p evident ... the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front cannot deny that its internal struggles continue." In announcing its creation, members of the new group pledged to carry on the ideals of rebel leader Salvador Cayetano Carpio, FPL founder who reportedly committed suicide in April. . Rebel Radio Venceremos governcharged the ment was responsible for the killing of 50,000 people and 3,000 kidnappings in the past three U.S.-back- "This is a reeime that has practically condemned to death a nation and has no other name than a criminal and genocidal regime, a violator of human rights," Venceremos said. "Only another criminal such as (President) Reagan, drunk on power and imperialist arrogance, could unconditionally help such a regime," Venceremos said. Reagan last week vetoed legisla about 3 U.S.-fund- nt Ortega said, referring to the United States, which has reportedly channeled $24 million to the Honduras-base- d Nicaraguan Democratic Force to sustain its fight against the Marxist Sandinista Herald Want Ads Bring Results Marxist-dom- inated "It is namely clarifying what the revolution means," said Miss Calderon. She said more than 20,000 people from throughout Nicaragua will be mobilized this winter to harvest coffee. The students at El Carmen said they volunteered and had the support of their families despite the dangers involved. There are problems. Some became ill and had to go home. Others are suffering from insect bites that leave ugly sores. Some have been accused of firing their weapons for kicks. "For some it is the first time they have been away from home and we have disciplined ourselves," said Miss Calderoa The Esteli brigade left school early this semester to pick coffee. 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When the peasants needed for the harvest arrive, they will work with the students and get "political education" on the revolutionary ideology of the Sandinistas. Reg. $99.96 The spokesman said the United ment submit to human rights certification demanded by the United miles sell-tim- States delivered $2 million in spare parts for helicopters and other equipment approved by Congress in January, but he stressed the arms ban still when the military governof Kjell Laugerud refused to while taking a break at the end of a day picking coffee. to let you get into automatically! With a the picture. Even wakes you up with a built-i- n travel alarm. mala. 1977 AK-4- 7 away. "They are there now. They are cooking," he said of the rebels. The plantation covers some 700 acres of shaded mountainside once owned by a colonel in the national guard of the late dictator Anastasio Somoza. 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