Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alejandro Bendana, secretary-general at the Foreign Ministry, said later that Nicaragua had no plans to cancel the elections. Commenting on possible renewed U.S. military aid to the Contras, Bendana added, "Obviously, if they let a bomb fall here we can't have elections...
Ortega said U.S. aid to the Contras should be used only to demobilize and resettle the army that has been trying to overthrow his leftist Sandinista government...
Fitzwater said no request for renewed military aid was contemplated...
Bermudez said the Contras would continue to observe the cease-fire except to defend themselves. He said he recognized that renewed U.S. military aid was unlikely, but called it "the only option...
Ortega contends the Contras have routinely violated the truce since it was signed in March 1988, a month after Congress suspended military aid to the rebels. He said that in 19 months, Contra attacks in Nicaragua killed more than 730 people and wounded more than 1000, mostly civilians...