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...Contra the UC (cantabile...
...JACKAL FLASHED A WICKED smile as he ushered 38 invited guests into the red brick schoolhouse. Before the Nicaraguan government delegates could take in their surroundings in the muddy mountain town of El Zungano, the Jackal's band of former contra guerrillas closed around them in a tight cordon. Training automatic weapons on the hostages, the rightist rebels announced the price for freedom: dismissal of Sandinista army chief Humberto Ortega and top presidential aide Antonio Lacayo, viewed as too easy on the country's ousted Marxist rulers...
More than 70 hostages were released in Nicaragua after being held by two rival ; groups for nearly a week, ending a tragicomic crisis that raised fears of a new civil war. Shortly after former anticommunist contra guerrillas freed some 38 members of a peace commission, a group of former Sandinista soldiers let go 34 politicians they had seized, including the Vice President. Both sets of captors were virtually guaranteed immunity from prosecution as well as consideration of their demands for land, loans and other...
...them land their ships. My first job was to run for the L.A. County Democratic Central Committee." But, he says, "Ronald Reagan had caught on to me through Nancy's astrologer. She told him I was going to ruin everything, uproot his legacy. All his scandals about Iran-contra would come...
...degree of savagery in Washington. A distraught former Secretary of Defense James Forrestal threw himself to his death in 1949 out a 16th-floor window of the Bethesda Naval Hospital; Robert McFarlane, National Security Adviser to Ronald Reagan, in 1987 attempted suicide over his implication in the Iran-contra scandal. He survived and recovered...