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...Adolfo Birch. Soph., Nashville, Tennessee. Very interested in improvement. Constantly requests progress reports. Also believes himself to be the only Houston Rockets fan at Harvard...
Foley allegedly led students in chants such as "Nicaragua Si! Contras No!" and "Death to the Fascists" when Adolfo Calero, leader of the Nicaraguan Democratic Forces, attempted to address a group of students at Harris Hall, a university auditorium...
...assistance office. Also, the program was embarrassing to the government of Honduras, which claims it does not harbor contras, even though several bases are located there. The Hondurans have been placated by the decision not to allow the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa to distribute the aid. Says Adolfo Calero, head of the largest rebel group, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force: "We have very little. It is a good time for the aid to come...
...point where we were practically pleading with the Mexican government to let us save someone." Many Mexicans were equally critical. They wondered, for example, why President de la Madrid had waited 39 hours after the earthquake before addressing the nation on television. The government, said Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, a Mexican foreign policy expert, "refused to recognize the dimensions of the tragedy the first day, so many lives were lost. They went around in circles...
...conservative groups in the U.S. have been soliciting money and supplies for the rebels' fight against the Sandinista regime. The main figure in that effort is Singlaub, 63, who was dismissed as Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in South Korea in 1977 after a dispute with President Carter. Adolfo Calero, commander of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.), the largest contra group, claims that Singlaub's network of U.S. and foreign supporters has raised the lion's share of cash and supplies valued at "close to $10 million." Substantial assistance, says Calero, is coming from "at least a dozen...