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- GRAPEVINE, Page 11Shevardnadze's Final Favor
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Linda Williams
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- Just before he angrily resigned as Soviet Foreign Minister,
- Eduard Shevardnadze went out of his way to help his friend
- James Baker with a problem in Central America. The Secretary
- of State suspected that leftist guerrillas in El Salvador had
- acquired sophisticated Soviet SA-7 and SA-14 shoulder-held
- antiaircraft missiles to use against the U.S.-backed
- government. Baker gave his counterpart a photo of a seized
- launching tube, and Shevardnadze promised to investigate. In
- their last meeting in Houston, Shevardnadze informed Baker that
- the missiles were part of a shipment sent to Nicaragua in
- 1986. Armed with that information, Bush Administration
- officials demanded an explanation from the Nicaraguan military,
- which is still controlled by the Sandinistas. They admitted
- that the missiles came from their stock but claimed the
- shipment was not "officially" sanctioned.
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