Suddenly an airplane approached from the Honduran side of the Coco River, which forms the border between the two countries.

As Sandinista troops approached, large numbers of contras fled across the Coco River into Honduras.

Mr. Fagoth, who has reportedly returned to his native village on the Coco River, could not be reached for comment.

The Coco River marks about half of the border between Nicaragua and Honduras.

The Do Coco River is a river of Tocantins state in central Brazil.

Some Miskito Indians returned to their traditional homeland along the Coco River in Nicaragua.

The Coco River marks the border in the area and must be crossed to enter Honduras.

The next day they attacked north to seize the dirt airstrip across the Coco River in Honduras.

Not all the Indians who have returned to the Coco River had been in camps in Nicaragua.

Hundreds of people in the town of Wiwili clung to treetops and roofs along the Coco River.