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...told North about this scheme in early 1985: "I said, 'Do you think this will work?' and he probably said yeah." In fact it did not work -- then. But North worked the same kind of deal on arms sold by the U.S. to Iran a year or so later. Alfonso Robelo, head of a contra group based in Costa Rica, told the Post that North had arranged for $100,000 to be paid into the group's bank account...
...rebel leadership is no longer successful even at sticking together. Two of the contra directors, Arturo Cruz and Alfonso Robelo, have threatened to quit the U.S.-sponsored United Nicaraguan Opposition because of their differences with Adolfo Calero, head of the largest and best-armed contra organization, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force. Cruz and Robelo say Calero has ignored them and undercut their attempts to democratize the movement. Cruz recently told TIME that the UNO chiefs were not "spokesmen for the people" but rather a "cluster of bickering leaders." In Costa Rica, Robelo reportedly told U.S. officials that he would resign unless...
...Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Richard Bruns, Robert I. Burger, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Tom Curry, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, Helen Sen Doyle, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John Edward Gallagher, Nancy R. Gibbs, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Nelida Gonzalez- Alfonso, Christine Gorman, Rodman Griffin, D. Blake Hallanan, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Carol A. Johmann, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, JoAnn Lum, Katherine Mihok, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Christine Morgan, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Jeannie Park, Michael Quinn, Barry Rehfeld, Theodore P. Roth, Megan Rutherford, Andrea Sachs, David Seideman, David...
...Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Richard Bruns, Robert I. Burger, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Tom Curry, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, Helen Sen Doyle, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John Edward Gallagher, Nancy R. Gibbs, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Nelida Gonzalez- Alfonso, Christine Gorman, Rodman Griffin, D. Blake Hallanan, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Carol A. Johmann, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, JoAnn Lum, Katherine Mihok, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Christine Morgan, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Jeannie Park, Michael Quinn, Barry Rehfeld, Theodore P. Roth, Megan Rutherford, Andrea Sachs, David Seideman, David...
...roughly 500 Sandinista and 500 rebel soldiers. In the first significant battle since last March, dozens were left dead and at least 100 were wounded. There was also confirmation last week of two contra ambushes in central Nicaragua during the first week of November that killed ten people, including Alfonso Nunez Rodriguez, a prominent Sandinista peasant organizer...