Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...angry tone of the congressional hearing underscored the deepening mystery surrounding the downed Fairchild C-123K transport, which was carrying tons of arms and supplies to the contra rebels for their simmering U.S.-backed war with the Marxist-oriented Sandinistas. The jungle plane crash cast tantalizing light over the shadowy world of U.S. gunrunners in Central America -- and raised serious questions about the extent and legality of U.S. involvement there...
...debate over the downed plane sharpened last week as speculation about the U.S. role intensified. In Washington, Vice President George Bush admitted that he had twice met Max Gomez, one of two Cuban Americans whom Hasenfus identified as CIA agents in charge of contra supply missions from El Salvador's Ilopango air base, from which the downed plane had flown. Bush called Gomez, whose real name is Felix Rodriguez, a "patriot" who was advising El Salvador in its war with Marxist guerrillas...
...have excelled Ronald Reagan at winning showdown foreign policy votes on Capitol Hill. Through a combination of astute compromise and skillful personal lobbying, the President has managed to persuade reluctant legislators on such hotly contested matters as sending advanced AWACS surveillance aircraft to Saudi Arabia and aid to the contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. But ) last week Reagan's fabled reserves of luck and persuasion finally ran out. Both houses of Congress voted decisively to override his veto of a bill calling for stiff economic sanctions against South Africa...
About 200 University of Massachusetts students Thursday engaged in a shouting match during a rally at the Amherst campus to support an American captured when Sandinista troops shot down a contra supply plane in Nicaragua, the Associated Press reported...
...Tegucigalpa, Honduras, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the largest of the Contra groups, said the men on the plane had worked with them since...