Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AFTER the presidents of five Latin American countries agreed this week to demobilize, relocate and repatriate the Contra revolutionaries in Nicaragua by December 5, the Bush Administration reacted with disappointment...
...other reason advanced by the presidents for dismantling the Contras so quickly is the destabilizing effect of the rebels inside the Honduran borders. This may be true, but a plan to reintegrate 50,000 Contra refugees into the Nicaraguan social and political mainstream within four months doesn't seem viable...
...Iran-Contra II: The Drugging When first asked about his role in the Iran-contra affair, Reagan claimed he knew nothing. It seemed the president's subordinates had kept him unaware of the deal, a possibility made convincing to many by Reagan's knack for taking naps during important meetings...
...They don't like his role in Central America, his proconsular, interventionist, pro-contra role as Ambassador in Honduras. They don't like his Viet Nam background and his national security, intelligence-community background. Nonetheless, it is possible that he'll become the first U.S. ambassador in many years to establish channels of communication with all sectors of the political spectrum, in which case he might even become a good ambassador...
...formidable 60 Minutes team since 1984, she has traveled from the garbage mounds of Cairo to the heart of the AIDS plague in Uganda, profiled the likes of Corazon Aquino and James Michener, and given then candidate George Bush perhaps his toughest TV grilling on the Iran-contra scandal. If she never seemed an indispensable cog in the powerful engine that is 60 Minutes, she was no Tinkertoy either...