To the Barricades

In Costa Rica, a handful of the 40,000-odd Nicaraguan fugitives from the dictatorship of General Anastasio Somoza decided to go home to make a revolution. Led by General Alfredo Noguera Gomez, they set out for Nicaragua in a 30-passenger bus.

Costa Rica's President Teodoro Picado sent a party of soldiers and police in pursuit, in a beach wagon. Shortly after midnight they were stopped beyond the village of Naranjo by a road block. They got out and reconnoitered. The revolutionists opened fire. Score: one pursuer killed, three wounded.

President Picado sent out reinforcements. In the village of Zarcero the revolutionists fired at random. In the town of Quesada they fired at the constabulary. As they approached the pier on the San Carlos River, the local constabulary opened fire. Score: two revolutionists wounded.

When last seen, the insurgents were still headed toward the Nicaraguan border, in frantic flight. General Noguera had jettisoned his hat, his sword, and his valise, which contained a bugle, a swatch of silk underwear, a bottle of perfume.

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