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The fear in Little Managua

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IN THE terse vocabulary of the courts, the suit is known as “the matter of N-J-B”. It is the appeal of a class-action suit affecting as many as 40,000 Nicaraguans who arrived in Miami in the 1980s and have lived there ever since.

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