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This oppression could have stemmed from the presence of Ortega's military of 150,000 soldiers, supposedly formed to combat the 15,000-strong Contra resistance. Ortega also used the war against the Contras to excuse censoring La Prensa, harassing non-Sandinista priests and bishops and dislocating an indigent tribe from its ancestral homeland...
...role as the chief of state who grasped the big picture but did not bother with the little one. During eight hours of videotaped testimony in a Los Angeles courtroom on Feb. 16 and 17 (a 293-page transcript was released last week), Reagan occasionally bantered with the Iran-contra special prosecutor and with lawyers for former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who faces trial on five counts of obstructing a congressional investigation and making false statements to Congress. He gave no sign that he had resisted being called to testify as a defense witness for Poindexter...
Instead he reverted to his earliest version of his conduct during the Iran- contra affair, insisting that he knew little or nothing about many key aspects of the fiasco. He provided a scrambled account of the origins of secret arms shipments to Iran that contradicted the testimony of other witnesses and evidence assembled by various investigations. He asserted, for example, that the idea had been broached by "a group of individuals, citizens of Iran," who wanted to lay the groundwork for better relations with the U.S. after the Ayatullah Khomeini died. Both the Tower commission and congressional investigating committees concluded...
...mind was pretty much a blank. General Vessey? "Oh dear, I could ask for help here. The name I know is very familiar." (It should be: he was Reagan's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.) Adolfo Calero? Reagan could not recall the most famous of the contra leaders even after he was shown a picture of the two of them together at a White House gathering. He had somehow missed the fact that McFarlane pleaded guilty in 1988 to withholding information from Congress. Shown the section of the Tower commission report that demonstrates that at least in early...
COCA is planning to circulate a petition at Harvard to encourage the Bush administration to end trade embargos and contra aid, Donaghy said. And on March 24, a COCA-organized group will travel to Washington to participate in a national protest over aid to El Salvador and the war in Nicaragua...