Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finance parental choice among public schools -- typically, say opponents, white schools for white kids living in mixed neighborhoods. He has called for AIDS testing of all marriage-license applicants, hospital patients and convicts and has unloaded on Republicans and Democrats alike who opposed the President's Iranian and contra policies. All that after Brother Bob told him about the fish. "He sees a complex federal agency as a bully pulpit," comments Joseph Duffey, chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Bennett's predecessor at NEH. "It is the temperament of a preacher." Hawkins has another, perhaps more canny...
...hardly complain that it is not to his liking. But last week the court proved again how frustratingly independent it can be, decisively upholding the special prosecutors who have bedeviled Reagan's second term. In the process, it also cleared the way for the upcoming trials of the Iran- contra Four: Oliver North, John Poindexter, Richard Secord and Albert Hakim. Says Michigan Democratic Senator Carl Levin, who sponsored the independent- counsel legislation: "It's a slam-dunk decision...
...conviction of former Reagan Aide Michael Deaver, who was prosecuted by Independent Counsel Whitney North Seymour Jr. But what really had Washington holding its breath was the prospect that a reversal might put into question evidence collected by Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh in the first months of his Iran-contra investigation, before he took a backup appointment from the Justice Department. The ruling also frees Prosecutor James McKay, who earlier obtained a conviction of former White House Aide Lyn Nofziger, to release the report on his investigation into Attorney General Edwin Meese...
...knew it was coming," said Jorge Rosales, a press officer at the Nicaraguan Resistance headquarters in Miami last week. Word had just leaked that the contras plan to lay off many, if not all, of their civilian employees. "Everybody knows there has been a negative vote in Congress," said Rosales, referring to the bleak prospects for more U.S. aid to back the contra war effort against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua...
...contras' support staff comprises several hundred employees in many Latin American, U.S. and European cities. This week contra leaders will meet to determine the precise number of cutbacks, which will go into effect on July...