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Word: contra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge District Court Judge Arthur Sherman yesterday set a date for the jury trial of a protester who disrupted a former contra leader's speech at the Law School last October...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Contra Speech Protester Set for Cambridge Court | 3/5/1988 | See Source »

Last October, Laub, screaming anti-contra epithets, rushed the podium where former contra leader Adolfo Calero was about to speak and allegedly tried to attack him. Harvard police dragged Laub from the podium, and Law School officials immediately cancelled the speech...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Contra Speech Protester Set for Cambridge Court | 3/5/1988 | See Source »

Perhaps the President is completely ignorant of the situation in Nicaragua, believing that all Nicaraguans who do not support the Sandinistas are contras or contra sympathizers. More likely, the problem is that Reagan sees everything in terms of the bipolar struggle arena...

Author: By Sharmian L. White, | Title: Reagan's Hypocrisy in S. Africa | 3/5/1988 | See Source »

Cohen is vice-chairman of the Intelligence Committee and was also a member of the Iran-Contra committee which investigated the sale of U.S. arms to Iran and the diversion of some of the profits to the Contra guerrillas. President Reagan withheld notice from Congress for 10 months about the Iranian arms sales...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Kills Covert Action Initiative | 3/5/1988 | See Source »

...president, in a letter to pro-Contra forces sent while he was attending a meeting of Western allies in Brussels, Belgium, said Wright's plan "does not meet the essential criteria" of keeping the Contras viable and maintaining military pressure on the leftist Sandinista government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Defeats Nicaraguan Aid Package | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

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