Word: contra
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
WASHINGTON--A bitterly divided House voted Wednesday to cut off U.S. military support for Nicaragua's contra rebels, rejecting President Reagan's aid request in the hope of fortifying the Central American peace process...
...contra spokeswoman in Miami termed the vote "a serious setback in our struggle for freedom and democracy...
...board's second meeting, members discussed existing standards of free speech at Harvard and how the group might have handled several past cases including a disrupted speech by former contra leader Adolfo Calero at the Law School in October and a blockade of a South African diplomat in Lowell House in the spring...
...Ortega's head, they apparently worked. The note of compromise that Ortega struck in San Jose two weeks ago while meeting with the peace plan signatories quickly evaporated when he returned home. During a visit last week to Ciudad Dario, a town north of Managua, he warned that if contra aid was approved, the Nicaraguan government would gain a "free hand to take necessary measures to defend the sovereignty, self-determination and independence of our country." The implication was that even a single additional cent of aid would provoke the Sandinistas to withdraw some, if not all, of their concessions...
...Sandinistas continue to wage peace in Central America, Washington braces for a crucial congressional vote on contra aid. -- Noriega stubbornly clings to power in Panama. -- Israel switches from bullets to beatings in attempting to control Palestinian unrest. -- Mozambique suffers under the double grip of famine and civil...