Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks ago, Ortega hotly debated with him in public for an hour. Moreover, a letter that Dole had written demanding the release of two jailed opposition leaders was published in the Sandinista press. Last week the two activists were turned over to Senator Harkin, a Democratic foe of contra aid, one week before their month-long jail terms were to expire...
...inquiry promises to be a grand piece of political theater, with enough ( ideological conflicts, impassioned players and historic resonance to make it a worthy sequel to this summer's Iran-contra civics lesson. But the hearings into the nomination of Robert Bork as the nation's 104th Supreme Court Justice offer something more. At issue on the 200th birthday of the Constitution will be the most fundamental questions at the heart of that document and in the soul of the nation it constituted: What inalienable rights -- ranging from free speech to equal justice to personal privacy -- are guaranteed to citizens...
...critics on the committee. "Any Senator who decides to just jump in and portray Bork as some racist, some evil Neanderthal, is going to be in deep trouble," says Republican Committee Member Alan Simpson of Wyoming. Many hopeful conservatives, remembering the turnabout in public opinion during the Iran-contra hearings, envision Bork as "Ollie North without the medals...
...prevent a replay of the surge in sympathy for North, Biden has ordered that the table for the committee members be placed at the same level as that of the witness. In the Iran-contra hearings, where the congressional members sat on a dais, the television cameras made it seem that they were lecturing and hectoring the witnesses from on high...
Talk of peace worries the U. S.- backed contra rebels. -- Libya loses a base and a plane in its war with Chad. -- Sad whispers in Cuba...