Word: contras
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
SAPOA, Nicaragua--The government and Contra rebels declared a 60-day ceasefire late Wednesday, agreeing to negotiate an end to their six-year war and signing an accord that promises the rebels a role in Nicaragua's political process...
...think, I hope and I believe that we have made a start, a firm start to end this war that is killing...sons of the same country, sons of the same mothers," said Contra leader Adolfo Calero...
...decision to dispatch more than 3000 American troops to a Honduran air base came in response to confirmed Sandinista incursions into Honduras in pursuit of contra rebels. Even though the Sandinistas have reportedly withdrawn from Honduras and are negotiating a cease-fire with the contras, the United States still plans to keep its force in Honduras. But the troops may do more than what the Administration claims is their mission--to keep the Sandinistas from wiping out the contras...
...Sandinistas, on the other hand, are hoping to cripple severely the contra resistance--putting them in a greatly weakened position for their first high-level face-to-face negotiations within Nicaragua this week. Indeed, Costa Riean President and Nobel Laureate Oscar Arias Sanchez, who has repeatedly criticized the Nicaraguan government's failure to comply with the peace plan he designed, denounced last week's Honduran raid as a blow to the peace process and said it revealed that the Sandinistas are more concerned with eliminating the contras than negotiating with them...
...Administration properly used military force in Honduras to bolster Tegucigalpa's morale and to deter further Nicaraguan incursions across the border. In essence, we stuck out the American chin and dared the Sandinistas to hit us--and it worked, as they withdrew this week without destroying the main contra supply cache...