Word: calero
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What do the contras say about who supplied them with funds during 1984 and '85, when Congress officially had cut off their U.S. backing? Following a two-day session with a grand jury in Washington, Contra Leader Adolfo Calero declared that retired Generals Richard Secord and John Singlaub had helped the Nicaraguan rebels to "engineer" arms deals worth millions of dollars. Calero also declared that his own contra group, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, had received $32 million from non-American private donors. (Actually, most of that money is known to have come from Saudi Arabia's King Fahd...
...Calero also admitted that the resistance committed rights violations but sought to place them in a wider perspective...
...Calero said that if the Sandinistas do notcomply with the provisions of the Arias plan"within the next year [there will be] a collapse.They will have everybody on top of them."CrimsonDavid K. EldanADOLFO CALERO...
...United States were to cut off aidcompletely. Calero said, the contras could notsurvive without a substitute source...
...Calero, who did postgraduate studies inbusiness management at Syracuse, said, "If theSoviet Union wasn't sending aid, regional sourcesof aid could keep us going...