Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...missiles, advanced radar equipment that would complete Nicaragua's air-defense system, and a supply of MI-24 "Hind" helicopters. The choppers are heavily armed gunships that the Soviets use against rebellious tribesmen in Afghanistan; they are probably intended to flush out 6,000 of the U.S.-backed contra guerrillas, who have now moved permanently inside Nicaragua to carry on their hit-and-run war against the Sandinistas...
...meeting held by the Committee on Central America (COCA) this week about 30 activists voted to organize a November 29 rally opposing US contra intervention in Nicaragua...
...country is, quite simply, opposed to justice and liberation in Central America. The mining of the harbor, the CIA manual and the contra funding hurt American prestige and are ineffectual, as liberals claim. The point they miss is that all of these efforts, like Walter F. Mondale's proposed quarantine, are aimed at destroying a government that overthrew a U.S.-sponsored dictatorship which repressed its poverty stricken citizens...
...course, Reagan's real desire is to quash the Nicaraguan regime by diplomatic and subversive means. But with aid to the contra guerrilla forces cut off by Congress, and the newly elected Nicaraguan government assured of popular support for the near future, the likelihood of an overthrow seems low indeed. Rather than muscling or hustling the Sandinistas, the Reagan Administration might accomplish something tangible by dealing with the present situation, instead of reacting to imagined situations...
Reagan also was mistaken about a CIA manual giving advice to contra guerrillas battling the Sandinista government of Nicaragua on how to assassinate Sandinista officials, hire "criminals" to kill contras who would then be presented as martyrs, and stir up mob violence. The President said the manual had been written by a CIA contract employee "in Nicaragua" (he hastily corrected himself to say "in that area," meaning Central America) and censored in Washington, but "some way or other" about a dozen copies with the offending passages got out to the contras. He wrongly remembered what briefers had told him just...