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...intelligence and personnel. Life at the contra bases consists largely of waiting for meals and intermittent training sessions. From the camps in Costa Rica, the rebels have launched few attacks and seem to spend most of their time fighting the mosquitoes. At the Costa Rican camp run by Fernando Chamorro Rapacciola, the officers practice silk-glove military discipline: "If we are too hard on them, they will leave," says Chamorro with a rueful smile...
...called, the Nicaraguan legal team, which also includes a Briton, a Frenchman, a Nicaraguan attorney and Managua's Ambassador to the Netherlands, attempted to prove that the contras were a creation of the U.S. and would wither away without Washington's funding. In an affidavit, former Contra Leader Edgar Chamorro claimed that the rebels were practicing terrorism against civilian populations as a conscious policy. He alleged that the political and military activities of the rebel Nicaraguan Democratic Force, which he left last year, "were directed and controlled by the CIA." Chamorro said that agents hired by the CIA would carry...
...team, comprised of another U.S lawyer, together with the Nicaraguan ambassador to the Netherlands and an attorney each from England, France and Nicaragua presented five witnesses and an affidavit from Edgar Chamorro, a former contra leader...
...Chamorro wrote that the CIA directed the rebel leaders' quest for Congressional funding, wrote their speeches and policy, and forced them to join with members of the former Nicaraguan dictator Gen. Anastasio Somoza's National Guard. The witnesses testified about reported contra atrocities and gave estimates of the damage to and legitimacy of the Nicaraguan government...
...timing of the deportation hearing was "just a twist of fate," insisted Perry Rivkind, the INS district director in Miami. He rejected any suggestion that politics influenced his decision to review the case. Chamorro, who has been denied political asylum by the U.S., claims that he has a U.S. entry visa valid through 1987. He vowed to fight any attempt to deport...