Central American Military Joint Training Maneuvers, Nicaragua, Mar-Apr68

Central American Military Joint Training Maneuvers, Nicaragua, Mar-Apr68 Joint training exercise w/ Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua & the United States. Slate: 31Mar68 Nicaragua. MCU Two star General at radio, speaks into microphone; longer shot w/ younger officer beside him. Other officers taking down notes & talking into microphones. 00:01:08 C-130 overhead low. MCU Aggressor soldiers in brush; tilt up to two C-130s on dirt runway. Guerrillas w/ rifles firing at planes. Guatemalan soldiers crawling towards aggressors; run & take prisoners. Remove machete & march w/ hands on heads. 00:02:32 American training soldiers walk past. All moving across field w/ rifles & light packs. C-47 lands; soldiers standing guard in brush alongside field. 00:03:25 Guerrillas on balcony firing machine guns at passing convoy. Mechanized unit on dirt street below. People watching from porch (seen from balcony w/ men firing); guerrillas captured, searched. Various troops talking. Leaving as townspeople watch. People on street in front of wooden houses; Army truck crossing wooden plank bridge. 00:05:45 Truck w/ furniture past & pulls up to house. Military shaking hands w/ men. 00:06:27 Pier into Atlantic (soft focus). Aerial over Puerto Cabezes w/ surf, airfield w/ planes & base camp. Two ships at pier. 00:07:42 Slate. Troops in camouflage uniforms in formation at closing ceremonies, at attention saluting & w/ rifles. Navy troops in dress whites, Army troops of several nations. 00:08:51 LS on runway of troops. Flags of participating nations flying, officers & visitors at covered stand. Troops on runway. MS President Somoza seen from rear, at microphone. Flags in CU. Men listening. Operation Nicarao; 1968; 1960s; Anti-Communism; Dictator;