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...United States has forced Honduras to harbor the contra army, several new U.S. airstrips and occasional groups of paratroopers. The natives are getting restless, and if they don't quiet down, Honduras too may soon be added to the list of unstable and crumbling Central American countries...
Teichman said he will lead a study group oncovert action in U.S. foreign policy. Teichman,who this spring led a study group on the MiddleEast, said his group this fall will explore theIran-contra affair, the use of poison gas in theIran-Iraq war and the connection between drugs andcovert action...
...garrison and farming town in Nicaragua's Jinotega province that has been as close to the center of the brutal six-year war as any other town in the country. Pantasma's 4,000 inhabitants should be happy: after signing a 60-day cease-fire last month, Sandinista and contra leaders met in Managua last week to negotiate details of the final accord. The talks bogged down on both technical and substantive issues, but the two sides predicted that progress would be made when they meet again this week. Nonetheless, Pantasma seems more weighed down by its bloody past than...
...This is a town of widows," says Mirano, 31, a mother of five who lost her husband three years ago. Marlene Jarquin, 28, nods in agreement; she regularly visits the little cemetery by the river where her husband and 36 others, all victims of a contra attack in 1983, are interred in a mass grave. "Life is hard for us," Jarquin says. "It is difficult to believe in peace until it happens...
Nields recounted the details of the Iran-contra affair and described the numerous transgressions committed by the Reagan Administration in diverting profits from Iranian arms sales to the contras. Several Iran-contra players are currently under indictment for their roles in the scandal...