Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Contra leader Adolfo Calero is no stranger to the violent violation of free speech. In fact, he stands accused in an assassination attempt on Eden Pastora. On May 30, 1984 a bomb exploded at a public press conference in La Penca, Nicaragua called by dissident contra leader Eden Pastora (a.k.a. Commandante Zero). Eight people were killed including three international journalists. Many other reporters were mutilated...
...School Dean James Vorenberg '49 expressed "regret" over last Friday's disruption of a former contra leader's speech in a statement released yesterday, but said that the address was cancelled in light of the threat posed to Adolfo Calero's safety...
Sheehan's said his speech was based on evidencehe accumulated in a federal circuit court suitthat charges Iran-contra figures including Gen.John K. Singlaub, Gen. Richard Secord, Contraleader Adolfo Calero, arms dealer Albert Hakim and25 others of wide-ranging organized criminalactivity. The case is currently being heard inFlorida in the Eleventh Circuit Court...
...SCHOOL Republican Club took extra special care last Friday to secure a forum for contra leader Adolfo Calero. The organization reserved 300 of the 350 available seats for conservative students--the rest going to the press and, oh yes, the public. Just 20 members of La Alianza, the Latin American Law School group, were allowed inside to hold signs in protest...
...leftist troublemaker did manage to sneak in, however. Joshua Laub, a senior at Tufts and a member of the International Committee Against Racism (INCAR), attempted to attack Calero as the contra made his way to the podium. Harvard police quickly and successfully subdued Laub, but Law School officials nonetheless cancelled the event, despite Calero's willingness to continue...