Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to put the Iran-Contra fiasco behind him, President Reagan has placed a treaty with Gorbachev on intermediate-range nuclear missiles at the top of his agenda. By concluding such an agreement, Reagan believes he can salvage a powerful legacy in foreign affairs; he can be the first President in history to achieve an actual nuclear arms reduction treaty with the Soviets...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--President Reagan has invited the leadership of Nicaragua's Contra rebels to Los Angeles to give "his personal assurances" of commitment to their cause, the White House said yesterday...
Wright, who has a mixed voting record on contra aid, was receptive when visited last month by the Administration's new lobbyist on the issue, Tom Loeffler, a former Texas Republican Congressman. The two Texas pols, longtime friends despite their partisan differences, produced a plan that in effect offered the Sandinistas a stark choice: join in serious negotiations now or face a possible new infusion of U.S. military aid to the contras...
...Pennsylvania Avenue shuttle diplomacy was kept secret from the six directors of the contra leadership visiting Washington. By the time they discovered the plan, at the eleventh hour, they had no opportunity to help shape it. Privately, some grumbled that they had been sold...
...come unglued. But having proposed similar steps, the Administration was in no position to complain about what was decided in Guatemala. Indeed, in a statement released last Saturday, the President said he welcomed the rival proposal. If his plan had been intended partly as a ploy to get more contra funding, it had backfired. As long as the Central American peace process continues, however hesitantly, Congress will almost certainly be unwilling to renew the military funding that will soon run out for Reagan's favorite freedom fighters. And the willingness of Honduras to go along with the plan means...