Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decade. The Bush Administration seems unsure how to manage the collapse of the long U.S. effort to build a strong centrist government in El Salvador. But it has accomplished a sharp break with the Reaganite past in cementing an accord with the Democratic Congress to wind down the futile contra war in Nicaragua. The reversal leaves U.S. policy with an uncertain future...
...parties could split again: at Democratic insistence, the agreement contains a provision for cancellation in November if the contras provoke violence. But for now the Democrats and Republicans have both signed on to a plan that guarantees the 12,000-man contra army will remain intact through next February, when the ruling Sandinistas have promised to hold democratic elections. That much had been an emergency goal for Bush, since the current U.S. contra-aid program is scheduled to expire this week. Congressional Democrats, who have grown resistant to such assistance since the Iran-contra scandal, accepted this program because...
...intriguing question arising at Oliver North's Iran-contra trial goes beyond whether Ronald Reagan was aware of the secret policy his subordinates carried out in his name. Put bluntly, the new question is, Did the former President not only approve of the policy but lie about it in 1987 when he told the Tower commission that he did not know of the National Security Council's assistance to the rebels...
...Approved a plan, suggested by North on Oct. 30, 1985, to air-drop to contra units intelligence information about two boats carrying arms to Sandinista troops. The drop would also include high-powered 106-mm recoilless rifles "to be used to sink one or both of the arms carriers." The memo, from North to McFarlane, was marked "President approves." Brendan Sullivan, North's attorney, told the jury that John Poindexter, then McFarlane's deputy, wrote those words...
...been blocked -- Wyoming has two entrenched Republicans in Malcolm Wallop and Alan Simpson -- so Cheney has concentrated on climbing the House leadership ladder. Voted minority whip last December, he was considered a likely successor to minority leader Bob Michel. He defended the Reagan Administration during Congress's 1987 Iran-contra investigation and joined several G.O.P. colleagues in a harsh dissent from the panel's final report...