Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan did not discuss possible staff changes when he spoke to businesswomen in the White House. Instead, he said he hoped the furor would not undercut support for the Contra forces fighting the Sandinista government in Nicaragua...
Bush's comments came in a speech in which hesaid he fully supported Reagan's decision to makesecret arms sales to Iran, but knew nothing of thediversion of profits to the Contra forces. Reaganalso says he knew nothing of the diversion offunds until Attorney General Edwin Meese III toldhim a little more than a week...
...officials in Central America, fighting raged for three days during the last week of October, involving 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...
...North's global troubleshooting has sometimes landed him in trouble. As head of NSC operations in Central America, he organized a private supply network that provided aid to the contra rebels seeking to oust the Marxist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Senate and House committees investigated North's role last year, but found no proof that he had violated a U.S. law regulating aid to the contras. The colonel's name briefly surfaced again last month when Gunrunner Eugene Hasenfus was captured in Nicaragua after his plane was shot down while he was flying weapons to the contras. A card found...
...rebels are expected to go after political targets, like the Interior Ministry's security agents, and to avoid Nicaragua's well-equipped, 119,000- strong armed forces. Meanwhile, U.S. officials will try to convince the top contra commanders to move out of their bases in Honduras and push into Nicaragua. The North Atlantic coast, remote and sparsely populated, is considered the most secure place to set up headquarters...