Word: calero
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...medical supplies. (The $27 million in humanitarian aid that lawmakers agreed to last year as part of a reluctant compromise expires at the end of the month.) To kick off the effort, Reagan met with three leaders of the Unified Nicaraguan Opposition, Arturo Cruz, Alfonso Robelo and Adolfo Calero. He made a tough speech to Jewish leaders gathered at the White House, and scheduled a television address for this coming Sunday. The issue was publicly cast by the President, and more strongly by his top advisers, in us-or-them terms, with a blunt accusation that those who oppose aiding...
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...
Speaking to the group before Calero's arrival, Foley said, "He has no right to speak tonight, and we're not going to let him speak. He should be lucky to get out of here alive...
Active in left wing political organizations such as the communist affiliated International Committee Against Racism, Foley overstepped what the university considers proper, and is charged with "professional misconduct" for allegedly helping to prevent Calero from speaking...
...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...