Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first sign of trouble came immediately after the cease-fire was signed, when Bermudez removed Walter Calderon Lopez and Diogenes Hernandez Membreno, two contra field commanders who had attended the talks. Bermudez apparently felt that the officers had sold out the rebels by approving the accord. News of the disciplinary action spread quickly, leading combat unit leaders to openly criticize Bermudez...
...United States has forced Honduras to harbor the contra army, several new U.S. airstrips and occasional groups of paratroopers. The natives are getting restless, and if they don't quiet down, Honduras too may soon be added to the list of unstable and crumbling Central American countries...
...classified documents and "tempest- tested" computers that give off no electronic emanations that spies could pick up. A new hush-hush CIA facility? No, just a room in which lawyers for Oliver North and his fellow defendants can examine Government documents that they might need during the forthcoming Iran-contra conspiracy trial...
...advisers still haven't solved their major remaining problem: how to move cleanly but loyally away from Reagan and establish Bush's credentials as a forceful, independent leader. Traveling to such secondary media markets as Evansville, Ind., and Lima, Ohio, last week, Bush was pursued by questions about Iran-contra, Ed Meese, the trade-bill veto and the Administration's lackluster civil rights record. In each case, the Vice President swallowed hard and forcefully stuck with the boss. That can't continue indefinitely. "Reagan knows that Bush must eventually cement his own relationship with the American people," says Bush Political...
Teichman said he will lead a study group oncovert action in U.S. foreign policy. Teichman,who this spring led a study group on the MiddleEast, said his group this fall will explore theIran-contra affair, the use of poison gas in theIran-Iraq war and the connection between drugs andcovert action...