The World - News from July 29, 1988

A “peace convoy” protesting Reagan Administration policies in Central America arrived in Nicaragua, a month after U.S. officials tried to prevent it from leaving the United States with its cargo of medical supplies and food. The convoy of 20 trucks, vans and buses crossed the northern border into Nicaragua and was heading toward Managua to hand over the supplies, a spokesman for the group said in Managua. U.S. officials had stopped the convoy at the Texas-Mexico border last month, saying it defied a U.S. trade ban with Nicaragua imposed by President Reagan in 1985. “What they ended up doing was just crossing the border in ones and twos,” the group’s spokesman said.