Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resumed after a hiatus of almost three years. The Sandinistas authorized 14 radio and print organizations to begin or resume operations, and released U.S. Pilot James Denby, whose plane was shot down over Nicaragua two months ago. The Sandinistas downed another craft last weekend, this one a DC-6 contra-supply plane, which resulted in at least four deaths. The one captured crew member, Alejandro Sanchez, confirmed Nicaraguan charges that contra-supply operations continue to operate out of Honduras' Swan Island, in defiance of the peace pact. He claimed that the entire crew had been Nicaraguan except for one Colombian...
...communicated to Congress. Moreover, the aid request resembles one put forward by the Administration last fall when it asked for $270 million to be spread over 18 months, averaging $15 million a month. This package, which covers only four months and includes an additional $20 million to insure contra aircraft, averages $14 million a month...
...sitters, the Democrats plan to offer an alternative, non-lethal aid package, dismissed as "beans and blankets" by the White House, that will be voted on if the Reagan plan is defeated. Grass- roots groups bombarded Congressmen with letters and calls, and one group previewed television spots that link contra aid to potential U.S. troop involvement in the region. Last week's disclosures by a civil rights group that the FBI has been tracking citizens opposed to U.S. policy in Central America also seemed timed to embarrass the Administration...
Congressmen on both sides of the aid debate predicted victory this week, with the White House confident that enough of the undecided will vote its way on the ground that they cannot trust Ortega. But the contra leadership was taking no chances. Despite the importance of the talks in San Jose last week, top contra leaders were where they felt the action counted most -- in Washington, on Capitol Hill, lobbying for their cause...
...Rather had been brusque, even downright rude, but just what had George Bush stood up for anyway? That he has the right not to be dogged by questions he claims already to have answered? That he should be judged by more than just his murky behavior during the Iran-contra fiasco? Yes, but what had he been doing all that time? In rebutting Rather, Bush was not delivering a message, but beating up the messenger...