Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. He made his choice long ago." The President was speaking last week at a fund raiser in Oklahoma City, but his real audience was members of Congress who were once again considering the resumption of aid to the contra rebels struggling against Ortega's Sandinista regime. "It was a dark day for freedom," Reagan scolded, "when, after the Soviet Union spent $500 million to impose Communism in Nicaragua, the U.S. Congress could not support a meager $14 million for the freedom fighters in Nicaragua who were opposed to that...
Washington officials blamed the Honduran jitters on Congress's April 24 refusal to approve $14 million in contra aid. Their argument is that Hondurans are questioning why they should risk their own security if the U.S. Congress is not willing to support the anti-Sandinista cause. A Honduran government official declared that his country is "paying for the difference of opinion between the President and Congress...
...Administration was particularly annoyed by Honduran moves to dislodge droves of contras from camps along the frontier with Nicaragua that the rebels have been occupying since mid-1981. The Hondurans are anxious to close the camps so that the Sandinistas, who this month made two incursions into the area, will have no excuse for further attack. It remained unclear last week where most of the estimated 15,000 rebels are now operating. The contras claimed that 12,000 of their troops have returned to Nicaragua. Sandinista officials insist that the rebels have retreated to areas farther inside Honduras, possibly...
Ever since Congress cut off contra funding in May 1984, conservative groups in the U.S. have been soliciting money and supplies for the rebels' fight against the Sandinista regime. The main figure in that effort is Singlaub, 63, who was dismissed as Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in South Korea in 1977 after a dispute with President Carter. Adolfo Calero, commander of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.), the largest contra group, claims that Singlaub's network of U.S. and foreign supporters has raised the lion's share of cash and supplies valued at "close to $10 million." Substantial assistance...
...group most visibly involved in combat training is the Alabama-based Civilian Military Assistance, headed by Tom Posey, an ex-Marine, who claims to get his funds from private citizens. F.D.N. officers say that Posey's men are instructing contra units in the use of recently acquired surface-to-air missiles. Posey denies it. Says he: "Where did they dream that...